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port 22: Connection refused

  • Posted December 4, 2013

I was trying to log in my server through Mac Terminal. I typed ‘ssh root@ipaddress’ and it gives me ‘ssh: connect to host ipaddress port 22: Connection refused’. how should I log in? I just forgot :/

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onurtuna • September 17, 2016

I have solved this issue by unchecking the SSH key.

I have set an ssh key for the previous droplet. When I try to use the same ssh key for the new droplet it refused me to connect on port 22. I destroyed and created a new droplet and did not choose the ssh key. When I got the e-mail for the password it worked using that password.

onurtuna • September 17, 2016

I have solved this issue by unchecking the SSH key.

I have set an ssh key for the previous droplet. When I try to use the same ssh key for the new droplet it refused me to connect on port 22. I destroyed and created a new droplet and did not choose the ssh key. When I got the e-mail for the password it worked using that password.

Albert Abdonor • September 19, 2015

I Had the same issue, but with the sudo netstat -plutn | grep 22 i realized that my real port was changed to 2500, and not 22 anymore. but now it’s working properly.

Steve Lack • December 10, 2013

Turns out I was using a VPN that blocked port 22. Now everything is working properly.

jakub • December 4, 2013

Hi, <br>You tried other SSH clients? Alternatively, check using nmap-if port 22 is not used by any service or firewall.

jakub • December 4, 2013

Hi, <br>You tried other SSH clients? Alternatively, check using nmap-if port 22 is not used by any service or firewall.

raineorshine • April 25, 2020

I was getting Connection refused after I typed in the wrong password in ssh. After I logged in successfully from the Digital Ocean Console, I was able to log in successfully with ssh.

OpenSystemsLab • January 10, 2020

For ubuntu 16 this worked for me

from the console

$ sudo service sshd restart

amamtak • February 27, 2019

Did anyone find the answer? I’m still stuck with this issue for several months now and it’s a real pain. I can’t access my filezilla anymore even though I used to!

When I did sudo netstat -plutn | grep 22 from the console, it gave me the following

tcp        0      127.0.0.1:5432            0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN   1064/postgres
tcp        0      127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN      1291/master
tcp        0      127.0.0.1:3306            0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN      1019/mysqld
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22            0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN      1706/sshd
tcp6        0      0::::00            0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN      1364/apache2
tcp6        0      0:::1:25            0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN      1291/master

Thank you all so much!

jamie26921c3cf3 • July 18, 2016

I’m having the exact same problem since a letsencrypt certificate expired not connection to port 22 what do I do as I cannot access via console either…