Question
Trouble connecting through SSH tunnel to Droplet
- Posted on June 13, 2024
- Software DevelopmentDroplets
Asked by keith.brodie
I have an SSH tunneling scheme which works on my local cluster but has connection failures when I try to use it on my Ubuntu droplet. I set up the tunnel in SSH from my local machine like this:
ssh -L 12003:127.0.0.1:12003 NYTrader -N
NYTrader is defined in my config with the droplet IP and user root. That command works apparently - from my droplet:
root@NYTrader:~# ss -tuln
Netid State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port Process
udp UNCONN 0 0 127.0.0.54:53 0.0.0.0:*
udp UNCONN 0 0 127.0.0.53%lo:53 0.0.0.0:*
tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.53%lo:53 0.0.0.0:*
tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.54:53 0.0.0.0:*
tcp LISTEN 0 1 0.0.0.0:12003 0.0.0.0:*
tcp LISTEN 0 4096 *:22 *:*
root@NYTrader:~#
I have a script on the droplet sending characters every 2 seconds on 12003.
From my local PC:
telnet 127.0.0.1 12003
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Why is this connection refused? The tunnel appears to be up?
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Not sure where I went wrong - but it’s working now. Thanks for the replies
Heya,
The SSH tunneling setup you described should allow you to forward traffic from port 12003 on your local machine to port 12003 on the remote machine (NYTrader). The fact that
ss -tulnshowstcp LISTEN 0 1 0.0.0.0:12003 0.0.0.0:*on the remote machine means that the port 12003 is indeed open and listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0).However, the connection refused error when you attempt to telnet to 127.0.0.1:12003 on your local machine indicates that the tunnel might not be properly forwarding the traffic or there could be some other issue preventing the connection.
Hey!
Does the
telnet 127.0.0.1 12003command work as expected when you run it on the Droplet itself?The command you’ve used for the SSH tunnel seems fine, but can you confirm that
NYTraderis correctly defined in your SSH config file? It should look something like this:Another thing that you could test out is that there is no firewall rule on your local machine that could be blocking outgoing connections to
localhost:12003. You can test that quickly withtelnet portquiz.net 12003Let me know how it goes!
- Bobby