My server can't connect to ssh, please deal with it

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Dec 21, 2020, 12:29:16 PM12/21/20

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My server can't connect to ssh, please deal with it

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Dec 21, 2020, 1:44:01 PM12/21/20

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Hello,

I am assuming you are using a Google Compute VM instance. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

The first thing you can check is to ping your instance. Pinging the server excludes an error in

networking. You may ping your server with the command without the quotes and replace the [ip

address] with that of your server:

“ping [ip address of server]”

If it is successful, that means the server is online. If it is not, please check to see if your server

is running in the Google Cloud Console[1].

The next step is to check your firewall settings. An explanation may be that there is an issue

with firewall rules. Perhaps the rule that allows SSH connections is either disabled or deleted in

the Cloud Console. You may check existing rules by the command using the Google Cloud

SDK without the quotes:

“gcloud compute firewall-rules list”

Another scenario may be that there is a firewall rule on your premises that is preventing the

connection.

Depending on the error message, I’ve found a document here that describes troubleshooting

steps[2].

Again, this is the advice I can give at this moment.

I hope this helps.

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