I launched Amazon Linux instance and I am using a default security group with following settings:
Type:All traffic
Protocol:All
Port Range:All
But when connecting through ssh from my Mac I get Operation Timed Out message:
ssh -i "<key in double quotes>" ec2-user#<>.amazonaws.com
result in
ssh: connect to host <>.amazonaws.com port 22: Operation timed out
I am not sure what could be the reason. Can someone please help?
A time-out normally indicates there is no network connectivity to the remote computer. A simple rule-of-thumb is:
If the error comes back immediately, then the SSH request has been rejected by the remote computer
If the error takes some time to come back (eg 5+ seconds), then it never reached the remote computer
Some potential causes:
Something else is blocking the access, such as a corporate firewall. Try from a different network (eg home, work, tether via your phone) to try and diagnose this situation.
The instance might be in a private subnet
The instance might be in a subnet that is incorrectly configured (eg not routing to an Internet Gateway to make a 'Public' subnet)
Related
I was no longer able to SSH into a Google Cloud Compute Engine VM instance that previously showed no problems.
The error logs show the following
#type: "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Struct" value: {
conditionNotMet: { userVisibleMessage: "Supplied fingerprint does not
match current metadata fingerprint."
Trying SSH through the console showed
Code: 4003 Reason: failed to connect to backend Please ensure that:
your user account has iap.tunnelInstances.accessViaIAP permission
VM has a firewall rule that allows TCP ingress traffic from the IP range XXX.0/20, port: 22
you can make a proper https connection to the IAP for TCP hostname: https://tunnel.cloudproxy.app You may be able to connect without using
the Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy.
The VM instance logs showed the following
Error watching metadata: Get
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1//?recursive=true&alt=json&wait_for_change=true&timeout_sec=60&last_etag=XXX:
net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting
headers)
After stopping and restarting the instance I was able to ssh again but I would like to understand the reason for the problem in the first place.
The error message you received indicates that the metadata server's response caused the connection to the Google Compute Engine VM instance to time out. This could be because the server was taking too long to respond or there was a problem with the network. You can try to resolve this issue by either increasing the timeout value by using this doc or waiting for the instance to become healthy using the gcloud compute wait command.
The instance was unable to reach the metadata server, as suggested by the timeout error message. This could be a problem with the instance itself or with the network connection. A firewall or network configuration issue could have prevented the instance from connecting to the metadata server, or an issue with the underlying infrastructure could have rendered the instance temporarily unavailable.
To prevent this issue from happening again, you can increase the timeout value or use the gcloud compute wait command to wait for the instance to become healthy.it is recommended that you regularly update the SSH key used to connect to the instance, and check that the instance can reach the metadata server by making an HTTPS request to the IAP for TCP hostname. Additionally, it is important to ensure that your user account has the "iap.tunnelInstances.accessViaIAP" permission, and that the VM has a firewall rule that allows TCP ingress traffic from the IP range XXX.0/20, port: 22.
If you are using windows vm try troubleshooting steps mentioned in this doc.
We were able to ssh to the EC2 instance using the connect details until today; when it stopped working and I get the below error:
root#DKERP:~# ssh -i "gindustries.pem" ubuntu#ec2-15-184-231-34.me-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com
ssh: connect to host ec2-15-184-231-34.me-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com port 22: Connection timed out
Also, the telnet to public IP & port 22 is not working
root#DKERP:~# telnet 15.184.231.34 22
Trying 15.184.231.34...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
The session manager is also failing to connect with the below error:
We weren't able to connect to your instance. Common reasons for this include:
SSM Agent isn't installed on the instance. You can install the agent on both Windows instances and Linux instances.
The required IAM instance profile isn't attached to the instance. You can attach a profile using AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup.
Session Manager setup is incomplete. For more information, see Session Manager Prerequisites.
There are no firewalls in AWS configurations.
Overview:
Security Groups:
Instances:
Network Interface:
VPC:
Network ACLs:
The system logs are updated here: https://pastebin.com/RhAG5DzP
Kindly suggest.
The Connection timed out message normally indicates that there is no network connectivity.
In most cases, this is due to the Security Group.
The steps to check it are:
Select the instance in the Amazon EC2 management console
Go to the Security tab
Check the Inbound rules
To permit an SSH connection, there needs to be a rule that permits port 22 (SSH) and the source set to your IP address or from the whole Internet (0.0.0.0/0) -- preferably only your IP address so that everybody else will be blocked.
When launching an Amazon EC2 instance from the console, it will default to creating a new Security Group called launch-wizard. However, it is generally better to create your own Security Group with a useful name and only the rules you want. You can then re-use that Security Group in future for similar instances.
I tried to connect to a running ec2 instance with my usual settings, it returns
ssh: connect to host ec2 port 22: Connection timed out
I tried to connect with the built-in "EC2 Instance Connect", to connect directly from the browser with the AWS account, it returns
There was a problem setting up the instance connection An error
occurred and we were unable to connect or stay connected to your
instance. If this instance has just started up, try again in a minute
or two.
The instance was running for weeks, I am the only user with access to the AWS account and the SSH Keys and I didn t change any setting in the last ~3 weeks or restarted it
1st the timeout started ~1 week ago, nand then without any other change, my website (wordpress) suddenly started to show a database connection error (the database in inside the EC2 instance as well)
What I used to connect :
Either
ssh -i "Keys.pem" ec2-user#ec2-[public ip].eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com
Or
ssh ec2-user#[public ip] -i "Keys.pem"
Both show the same error. I used the first one several weeks ago and it used to work well
This timeout will be caused by invalid security group rules.
Ensure that the security group rules attached to your instance allow inbound access from the source IP address you're trying to SSH from, the database connection may also be related to this.
If you're connecting using a dynamic public IP address to SSH to your host, you will need to adjust this every time your IP address changes. It might be more appropriate to setup a VPN so that you can connect privately to your host.
I created Ubuntu instance in EC2. And worked fine so far.
But somehow I can't connect to the server by PuTTy anymore and I get Network error: Connection timed out.
The instance is running in the console.
CPU uses just 2%.
InBound Setting seems no problem. SSH with 22 port.
Tried with the IP address and DNS.
restarted the instance and Tried.
Stopped and tried with different IP address.
Instance connection is fine.
This is the screenshot:
This is inbound rule:
How can I solve this problem?
A Connection timeout is a sign that your computer is unable reach the remote computer. Such an error normally takes some time before it fails.
If, instead, the remote computer rejected the connection, the error would appear immediately and the message would be Permission denied.
Things to check:
The Security Group on the EC2 instance needs to allow inbound SSH (port 22) access either from the whole internet (0.0.0.0/0) or, preferably, from a smaller CIDR range that includes your computer (eg choosing "My IP" in the console). This is typically the cause of the issue 80% of the time.
The instance needs to be in a Public Subnet, which means the subnet is connected to an Internet Gateway.
Your network must allow an outbound SSH connection to AWS. Some corporate networks might block this.
There are some other potential causes, but most of the time the cause is one of the above.
About 6 months ago I created an AWS EC2 instance to mess around with on the free tier. After months of having no issues remoting into my AWS EC2 server, I've recently been unable to access it via SSH. I am using the following command:
ssh -i my-key-pair.pem ec2-user#ec2-**-**-***-***.us-****-*.compute.amazonaws.com
...and after a minute or two, am getting this response
ssh: connect to host ec2-**-**-***-***.us-****-*.compute.amazonaws.com port 22: Operation timed out
What's strange is that
1) I can read and write to my RDS database just fine
2) I can ping into the server
3) My port 22 is open
4) The instance is running and healthy
5) In the Inbound section of the security group of the EC2 server it allows for all traffic and SSH from any location via port 22.
6) I'm using the same key-pair as always
I went through this documentation (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/TroubleshootingInstancesConnecting.html) and can confirm that the VPC, subnet, network ACL and route tables all line up (I haven't changed anything with those since the SSH stopped working). Any insight would be extremely helpful!
Sometimes the instance fails, you can check the screen of it via AWS
console.
Run another instance in the same security group and try to
connect to it and then from there to your original one - to verify if
ssh is still open (even if you do not have the ssh key, the error
will not be 'timeout')
You can create a snapshot of your instance and
attach it as another volume in a new one and you can investigate
logs, maybe something went wrong.
You can restart the instance, if
for example i ran out of memory it will most likely work after the
reboot (hopefully for a long enough time for you to investigate).
You can contact AWS support.