By rc870240
I’m new to DO and have been struggling for the last few days to get a working droplet up and running. What typically happens is that the droplet is ‘successfully’ created and I can access it from the console on DO.com. However, if I try to ssh to it from outside of DO I get ‘no route to host’; but, oddly enough, I can ping the droplet from the same system that the ssh failed on. I have an open ticket on this and periodically get a ‘it should be working’ response (it usually isn’t). I want to think that this isn’t typical for DO hosting - any suggestions?
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“Is it possible that your local network or ISP filter port 22? Have you tried setting a custom SSH port?”
+1 for this. You will want to do that anyway.
to change port:
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
You will see the place where it says the port 22…change that to whatever, then ctrl X and then:
sudo service ssh reload
Then, just to be sure, run (if your alt port was 2010):
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 2010 -j ACCEPT
Then check your ports here: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
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