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

[Andreas Krey]

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

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800