Nothing modified in /etc/ssh/ssh.config or nfig.Note that this is simply a temporary instance of SSH that will run on a different port (23 by default), so you can login and determine whats wrong with the standard SSH service.

Selected вЂњDiffie-Hellman group exchangeвЂќ and moved to the bottom of the list, so it is not used You would replace 'IP' with the servers IP address and the session number with whats displayed in your address bar after logging in to WHM. After Ive changed the SHH port in azure from 22 to 2232 it gave me 'Connection refused' Ive tried to give it the private key that Ive downloaded from Azure after converting it to PPK using 'puttygen' but the same error is still showing 'Connection refused'. Per Community Discussion modified PuTTY, Connection > SSH > KexвЂќ. At the start Putty was giving the error 'Connection timeout'.Followed KB (1039095) and modified /var/run/nf per article.No firewalls between clients and servers.after rebooting ESXi host able to establish a ssh session through RHEL, but subsequent logins will fail.then will receive Connection refused error.Able to establish SSH connection by using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6, ONLY ONCE.Able to establish SSH connection by using localhost login on host.After capturing packets at different spots I found out that the problem occurs in the following. System > Security Profile > SSH service running on host When trying to ssh into one of the LXC containers, I sometimes get 'connection refused'.This is recent behavior, previously successful connecting with putty client.

When attempting to connect to various ESXi 6.5 hosts receiving message: Network error: Connection refused.

Putty ssh connection refused