SSH Connection Refused, How to Troubleshoot?

If you are looking for the solution to fix ssh Connection refused error.When you connect to your remote host using the ssh command as below.

#ssh user1@myserver1

You will get an error as,

ssh: connect to host myserver1 port 22: Connection refused

Here are the few reason behind the issue of "ssh Connection refused" and its solution.

Possibilities: You don't have an SSH daemon running on your remote server or connection been blocked by firewall settings.

1. Depending on what distribution installed, you may need to install or run the ssh server, usually called openssh-server or sshd depending on your package manager.

2. Allow ssh port 22 on firewall to accept the connection from other server.

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