I'm trying to ssh into my cisco ISR router. DHCP is working and I can ping the default gateway (the ISR), and can ssh with other devices on the LAN. so I know the LAN connection isn't the problem. I set up a local user that works with console logins so that's not the problem either.
I set up my ssh connection on the router with the following commands:
(config)#line vty 0 21
(config-line)#login local
(config-line)#exec-timeout 3
(config-line)#rotary 1
(config-line)#transport input ssh
(config)#crypto key generate rsa
(config)#ip ssh version 2
(config)#ip ssh port 2222 rotary 1
(config)#ip ssh authentication-retries 3
Then when I nmap the router it has the following ports open:
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
However, every time I try to log in to the router I get a Network is unreachable error. This is using the 2222 and 22 port and testing the normal IP and the hostname#ip formats for ssh and absolutely nothing works. I managed to get into telnet with the default settings earlier, but I'm not sure how to get in with SSH.
Thank you all for the help, I know it was very open ended so just let me know anything that could be helpful and I'll provide it.
One logical test step to do, would be switch back to port 22.
Network unreachable usually indicates there's no packet response coming from the host.
It could be because of multiple reasons, but since you've mentioned that ping and telnet went fine. I'd suggest you revert the port config, restart the unit once. See how it goes.
Other possible reasons could be ACL block and/or firewall block on your machine but I think it's unlikely.
I've been connecting to a Google Cloud VM instance via gcloud ssh from my macOS:
$ gcloud compute ssh [username]#[instance]
Starting from a week ago, the connection will just drop after ~60 seconds of idle connection and returns:
Connection to [my_external_ip] closed by remote host.
Connection to [my_external_ip] closed.
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssh) [/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255].
I configured the TCP keepalive time to 30 seconds on both my macbook and the VM. But that did not solve the problem.
Any idea how do I extend the connection duration?
This is unlikely an issue with your timeout setting, but more likely an issue with your firewall rules or routes.
Firstly I would suggest checking your firewall rules and ensure you have an ingress firewall rule opening port 22. If you have, check the configuration of this rule, in particular:
Check the IP range in 'Source filters'. Does the range include the IP address of your home computer? For testing purposes, to ensure it does, you could temporarily set this to 0.0.0.0/0 to include all IP addresses.
Check the 'Targets' drop-down. Is this set to apply to 'All instances in the network' or is it set to 'Specified target tags'? If you have set it to 'Specified target tags', make sure that the same tag is added to the 'Network tags' section of the instance, otherwise the firewall rule will not apply to the instance and allow SSH traffic.
Ensure this rule has a higher priority than any other rules that could counteract it (when I say higher priority I mean lower number, for example, a a rule with a priority of 1000 is a higher priority than a rule with a priority of 20000).
If the above doesn't resolve the issue, run the following command to check the routes:
gcloud compute routes list
Ensure there is an entry which contains the following:
default 0.0.0.0/0 default-internet-gateway
EDIT
If you are able to sometimes SSH into the instance but then the connection drops, there may be some useful information in the logs, or the serial console.
You can access the serial console by clicking on the instance name in the GCP Console, then clicking on "Serial port 1 ".
When you SSH into the instance, information about the SSH session populates the serial console output (this can be refreshed by hitting the 'Refresh' at the top of the page.) Information about the session ending also populates the serial console. There may be some useful information/clues about why the session ends in this output.
It might also be worth checking the status of SSH daemon on the instance and giving it a restart to see if that makes a difference:
Check status of sshd:
systemctl status sshd
Restart sshd:
sudo systemctl restart sshd
Let me explain my very strange problem. I have one server (Linux Debian Jessie) which had access to my git repository on gitlab.com
Two days ago, I tried to pull some modifications on this server with a simple git pull. I received an error message :
ssh: connect to host gitlab.com port 22: Connection timed out
Si I have done some tests
1. TELNET
To understand why, I have tried a telnet on 22 port = TIMEOUT
2. IPTABLES
I checked my iptables to be sure that SSH port was allowed. It is. If I try a telnet on another service for example like github.com, it works. So I'm allowed in OUTPUT on this port.
3. PING
I thought a ip translation problem. I have done a ping, I obtain this message :
PING 104.210.2.228 (104.210.2.228) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 104.210.2.228 ping statistics ---
87 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 86534ms
4. FAIL2BAN
I use fail2ban, so I have checked if gitlab was in jail address, but it seems not.
So my problem is that I can't reach gitlab.com
If I try from my local machine or from another server, I don't have this problem. It works.
I can't reach gitlab.com only from this server but I don't know why. Maybe someone has an idea which cans be very precious to help me ?
Probably some modification of firewall caused this. For a quick solution use http protocol instead of ssh. Change your url in the git config file to http.
git config --local -e
change entry of
url = git#gitlab.com:username/repo.git , to
url = https://gitlab.com/username/repo.git
You need to give your username and password to authenticate yourself while making a push or pull though as it's http based.
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I am trying to connect to remote server via ssh but getting connection timeout.
I ran the following command
ssh testkamer#test.dommainname.com
and getting following result
ssh: connect to host testkamer#test.dommainname.com port 22: Connection timed out
but if try to connect on another remote server then I can login successfully.
So I think there is no problem in ssh and other person try to login with same login and password he can successfully login to server.
Please help me
Thanks.
Here are a couple of things that could be preventing you from connecting to your Linode instance:
DNS problem: if the computer that you're using to connect to your
remote server isn't resolving test.kameronderdehamer.nl properly
then you won't be able to reach your host. Try to connect using the
public IP address assigned to your Linode and see if it works (e.g.
ssh user#123.123.123.123). If you can connect using the public IP
but not using the hostname that would confirm that you're having
some problem with domain name resolution.
Network issues: there
might be some network issues preventing you from establishing a
connection to your server. For example, there may be a misconfigured
router in the path between you and your host, or you may be
experiencing packet loss. While this is not frequent, it has
happenned to me several times with Linode and can be very annoying.
It could be a good idea to check this just in case. You can have a look
at Diagnosing network issues with MTR (from the Linode
library).
That error message means the server to which you are connecting does not reply to SSH connection attempts on port 22. There are three possible reasons for that:
You're not running an SSH server on the machine. You'll need to install it to be able to ssh to it.
You are running an SSH server on that machine, but on a different port. You need to figure out on which port it is running; say it's on port 1234, you then run ssh -p 1234 hostname.
You are running an SSH server on that machine, and it does use the port on which you are trying to connect, but the machine has a firewall that does not allow you to connect to it. You'll need to figure out how to change the firewall, or maybe you need to ssh from a different host to be allowed in.
EDIT: as (correctly) pointed out in the comments, the third is certainly the case; the other two would result in the server sending a TCP "reset" package back upon the client's connection attempt, resulting in a "connection refused" error message, rather than the timeout you're getting. The other two might also be the case, but you need to fix the third first before you can move on.
I got this error and found that I don't have my SSH port (non standard number) whitelisted in config server firewall.
Just adding this here because it worked for me. Without changing any settings (to my knowledge), I was no longer able to access my AWS EC2 instance with: ssh -i /path/to/key/key_name.pem admin#ecx-x-x-xxx-xx.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
It turned out I needed to add a rule for inbound SSH traffic, as explained here by AWS. For Port range 22, I added 0.0.0.0/0, which allows all IPv4 addresses to access the instance using SSH.
Note that making the instance accessible to all IPv4 addresses is a security risk; it is acceptable for a short time in a test environment, but you'll likely need a longer term solution.
If you are on Public Network, Firewall will block all incoming connections by default. check your firewall settings or use private network to SSL
The possibility could be, the SSH might not be enabled on your server/system.
Check sudo systemctl status ssh is Active or not.
If it's not active, try installing with the help of these commands
sudo apt update
sudo apt install openssh-server
Now try to access the server/system with following command
ssh username#ip_address
This happens because of firewall connection.
Reset your firewall connection from your hosting website.
It will start working.
After connecting to the server again add this to your (ufw) security
sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
There can be many possible reasons for this failure.
Some are listed above. I faced the same issue, it is very hard to find the root cause of the failure.
I will recommend you to check the session timeout for shh from ssh_config file.
Try to increase the session timeout and see if it fails again
My VPN connection was not enabled. I was trying all possible way to open up the Firwall and Ports until I realized, I am working from home and my VPN connection was down.
But yes, Firewall and ssh configurations can be a reason.
Try connecting to a vpn, if possible. That was the reason I was facing problem.
Tip: if you're using an ec2 machine, try rebooting it. This worked for me the other day :)
I had this issue while trying to ssh into a local nextcloud server from my Mac.
I had no issues ssh-ing in once, but if I tried to have more than one concurrent connection, it would hang until it timed out.
Note, I was sshing to my user#public-ip-address.
I realized the second connection only didn't work when I tried to ssh into it when on the same network, ie my home network
Furthermore, when I tried ssh user#server-domain it worked!
The end fix was to use ssh user#server-domain rather than ssh user#public-ip
I have experienced a couple of nasty issues that lead to these errors, and these are different from everyone else's answer here:
Wrong folder access rights. You need to have specific directory permissions on you ssh folders and files.
a. The .ssh directory permissions should be 700 (drwx------).
b. The public key (.pub file) should be 644 (-rw-r--r--).
c. The private key (id_rsa) on the client host, and the authorized_keys file on the server, should be 600 (-rw-------).
Nasty docker network configuration. This just happened to me on an AWS EC2 instance. It turned out that I had a docker network with an ip range that interfered with the ssh access granted by the security group and VPC. The docker network's range was e.g. 192.168.176.0/20 (i.e. a range from 192.168.176.1->192.168.191.254), whereas the security group had a range of 192.168.179.0/24; interfering with the SSH access.
I had this error when trying to SSH into my Raspberry pi from my MBP via bash terminal. My RPI was connected to the network via wifi/wlan0 and this IP had been changed upon restart by my routers DHCP.
Check IP being used to login via SSH is correct. Re-check IP of device being SSH'd into (in my case the RPI), which can be checked using hostname -I
Confirm/amend SSH login credentials on "guest" device (in my case the MBP) and it worked fine in my attempt.
I faced a similar issue. I checked for the below:
if ssh is not installed on your machine, you will have to install it firstly. (You will get a message saying ssh is not recognized as a command).
Port 22 is open or not on the server you are trying to ssh.
If the control of remote server is in your hands and you have permissions, try to disable firewall on it.
Try to ssh again.
If port is not an issue then you would have to check for firewall settings as it is the one that is blocking your connection.
For me too it was a firewall issue between my machine and remote server.I disabled the firewall on the remote server and I was able to make a connection using ssh.
my main machine is windows 10 and I have CEntOS 7 VBox
Search in your main machine for "known_hosts"
usually, known_host location in windows in "user/.ssh/known_host"
open it using notepad and delete the line where your centos vbox ip
then try connect in your terminal
in mac os user you can find known_hosts in "~/.ssh/known_hosts"
Make sure to ask the admin to authorize your device.
On Linux run:
sudo zerotier-cli listnetworks
if it returns status ACCESS DENIED ask the admin to authorize your node. This is mentioned here.
https://discuss.zerotier.com/t/solved-cant-join-network/1919
This issue is also caused if the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is not set-up properly.
To solve this first check if your IP Address is configured using
ping ipaddress,
If there is no packet loss and the IP Address is working fine try any other solution. If there is no response and you have 100% packet loss, it means that your IP Address is not working and not configured.
Now configure your IP Address using,
sudo dhclient -v devicename
To check your device you can use the 'ip a' command
For eg. My device was usb0 since I had connected the device through usb
This will configure an IP Address automatically and you can even see which one is configured. You can again check with the 'ip a' command to confirm.
This may be very case specific and work in some cases only but
check to see if you were previously connecting through some VPN software/application.
Try connecting again to the VPN. Worked in my case.
This happened to me after enabling port 22 with "sudo ufw allow ssh". Before that, I was getting a refusal from my machine when entering with ssh from another one. After enabling it, I thought it would work, but instead it showed the message "connection timed out". As I had just installed Ubuntu with the option of installing basic functions alongside, I checked whether I had the openssh-server with the command sudo apt list --installed | grep openssh-server. It turned out that Ubuntu had installed by defect the openssh-client instead. I uninstalled it and installed the openssh-server following the basic commands:
sudo apt-get purge openssh-client
sudo apt update
sudo apt install openssh-server
After that, a simple "sudo ufw allow ssh" worked perfectly and I was finally able to access the machine with an ssh command.
What worked for me was that i went to my security group and reset my IP and it worked
Here are some considerations which i took to resolve a similar issue that I had:
Port 22
IGW (Internet Gateway)
VPC
Scene 1> This is for port 22 not enabled with right configurations. If the port is set to custom or myip, the probable scene is this won't work.
Scene 2> When you delete the internet gateway, the network is created and the instance will be functional too, but the routing from the internet will not work. Hence make sure that if there is a VPC, it has an Internet Gateway attached.
Scene 3> Check the VPC for the subnet associations and routing table entries. This might probably tell you the cause. I found one in this kind of troubleshooting. The route used to land up in a "blackhole" (shows up in the route table section of the console). To fix this I had to check and find out my internet gateway and found the issue with the IGW.
Moral of the story: always trace backward in the network!
In my case I'm on windows, I reset my firewall settings, and it fixed
If you get any error check the basic a version control request with ssh -V and If it is not installed, install it with the sudo apt-get install openssh-server command.
Check your virtual machine ssh connection with sudo service ssh status at console.
Check "Active" rows and if write a inactive(dead) the console write sudo service ssh start
Result: Now you can check your connection with sudo service ssh status command and send ssh connection request.
Reset the firewall and reboot your VPS from your hosting service, it will start working perfectly fine
check whether accidentally you have deleted the default vpc or default subnets ,while creating your own vpc and subnets.
I have done this mistake while creating vpc, hence got this error while connecting via ssh.
alos check whether u have attched IGW to public subnets.
Its not complicated.
First, go disable your firewall(USE YOUR CONTROL PANEL)after you check if your openssh is active.
Disable firewall, then use putty or any alternative to basically disable using this command sudo ufw disable
try now
Update the security group of that instance. Your local IP must have updated. Every time it’s IP flips. You will have to go update the Security group.
I'm using SSH to access my university's afs system. I like to use rmate (remote TextMate), which requires SSH tunneling, so I included this alias in my .bashrc.
alias sshr=ssh -R 52698:localhost:52698 username#corn.myschool.edu
It has always worked until now.
I had the same problem. In order to find the port that is already open, you have to issue this command on the 'corn.myschool.edu' computer:
sudo netstat -plant | grep 52698
And then kill all of the processes that come up with this (replace xxxx with the process ids)
sudo kill -9 xxxx
(UPDATED: changed the option to be -plant as it is a nice mnemonic)
I had another SSH connection open. I just needed to close that connection before I opened my SSH tunnel.
Further Explanation:
Once one ssh connection has been established, subsequent connections will produce a message:
Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 52698
This message is harmless, as the forward can only be set up once and one forward will work for all ssh connections to the same machine. The original ssh session that opened the forward will stay open when you exit the shell until all remote editing sessions are finished.
I experienced this problem, but it was while connecting to a server on which I don't have sudo priviliges, so the top response suggesting runing sudo netstat ... wasn't feasible for me.
I eventually figured out it was because there were still instances of rmate running, so I used ps to list the running processes and then kill -9 pid (where pid is the process ID for rmate).
This solved my problem reported here as well. To avoid this notification "AllowTcpForwarding" should be enabled in SSH config.
In my case, the problem was that the remote system didn't have DNS properly set up, and it couldn't even resolve its own hostname. Make sure you have a working DNS in /etc/resolv.conf at the remote system.