NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: dial tcp 93.184.216.34:22: i/o timeout

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I am trying to connect to my ubuntu dev server. My config is

Remote config
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[greycubedev]
type = sftp
host = example.com
user = frappe
port = 
pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
key_file = 
use_insecure_cipher = true
disable_hashcheck = false
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When i do rclone lsd greycubedev:lsd I get following error

2018/08/17 17:09:41 Failed to create file system for “greycubedev:lsd”: NewFs: couldn’t connect SSH: dial tcp 93.184.216.34:22: i/o timeout

To rule out any configuration issue on my side. I manually did SSH with same IP/user/pwd and it is successful
ssh user@IP

What could be incorrect? Please advice. Thanks! for you valuable time.

2

Are you seeing any app armor error or a firewall type error? The message is saying a connection can’t be made so something is blocking it.

3

I don’t think so…That is why I did ssh from prompt to rule out such things

4

If you do on the server running rclone:

telnet 93.184.216.34 22

Does it connect?

5

Ok…got it…it appears rclone only gets connected to server with valid domain name. If it is just valid IP without any domain associated with it. it appears it fails

6

So solution is to put in when rclone config asks for host we should give IP (by the way if we choose default 1 i.e. example.com then IP is 93.184.216.34 )

host> your server IP

7

Thanks!! @Animosity022 for all the help and right pointers. Topic can be closed

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