port 22: Connection timed out

Posted on August 24, 2015

Today， I have established a droplet succesfully. The information: 162.243.159.46 512MB Ram 20GB SSD Disk San Francisco 1 CentOS 6.7 x64

Gateway: 162.243.152.1

However, when I try ssh root@162.243.159.46 The error occurred: ssh: connect to host 162.243.159.46 port 22: Connection timed out

Also, when I try ping 162.243.159.46 It failed to connect to the server

But, I can connect to the gateway. ping 162.243.152.1 is successful.

How can I solve this problem.

Thanks very much.

Best wishes

Zaixu

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midrian

September 29, 2017

The problem is MTU related try setting your client’s network card mtu smaller for example

ifconfig enp10s0 mtu 1000 (linux)

dennislee

October 6, 2018

thanks a lot for : run $sudo ufw allow 22

Federico Luna

July 12, 2020

Hello! I had the same problem and it persists even after enabling port 22 in the firewall.

In my case (I estimate that for having too many ssh keys) I had to initialize the ssh agent and add the key “manually”. And it worked.

The steps I followed were:

To initialize the ssh agent

eval $ (ssh-agent -s)

To add the key

ssh-add -i ~ / .ssh / key

— If your password has a paraphrase, you should insert it — In my case, the key was in the ~ / .ssh / directory and was called “key”, check the names of your files and replace them.

To enter the Droplet via ssh

ssh -i ~ / .ssh / key root @ droplet-ip

— It is important to add the argument “-i” to the ssh command and tell it the full path where your key is located — Then you can indicate with which user and to which IP you will connect

I hope it works for you too.

Regards