Re: [tor-onions] Tor Services not working with higher number ports

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:11:33 +0000, J. S. Evans wrote:

Previously, I had set my my ssh port to 12222 instead of port 22 so that it would be a little harder to find and that worked OK. This week I started adding this port to my onion service so that I could log into ssh via tor and I continuously received this kind of error:

Ncat: Error: Connection refused. ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

This usually works, and sounds like you mixed up the port numbers involved here. If your line is

HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:12222

then your sshd needs to listen on port 12222, and the ncat as the ssh proxy command must be pointed to your.onion:22.

Andreas