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

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

I worked on this for two days and this morning I decided to change sshd back to the standard port 22 and updated torrc accordingly and voilà it works.

My question is, is this a bug or a known limitation of the tor software?

Best Regards,

Jason