Hello,

I had been using linode successfully for the last 3 months. From a few hours, I am not able to login through SSH via putty. After I enter the username and password, putty throws a pop up error, Server connection closed unexpectedly.

Also when I try from filezilla, I get an error
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Could not connect to server

I had managed to login to putty and ftp about 16 hours ago. From about 8-10 hours I am facing this problem. I contacted the linode support, who tried a few things and finally said, your linode must be misconfigured. They asked me to post here for answers. Hope someone helps me out. And by the way , I havent made any changes in configuration of linode.

Thanks in advance.

Have you made any firewall changes?

I would reboot you're Linode maybe the ssh service stopped for some reason.

Hello Kyre,

There have been no firewall changes. Moreover I have tried logging in from some other machine as well on a different network.

I have also tried rebooting the Linode, but it was of no good.

Lish - The Linode Shell

We've all done it at some point. Messed with your network settings and can't get into your Linode? No worries - Lish is your virtual console. Lish's primary function is to allow you access to your server's console, even if networking is disabled.

[quote="maxim@inovvorx.com"]Hello,

I contacted the linode support, who tried a few things and finally said, your linode must be misconfigured. They asked me to post here for answers.

Interesting

@kyrunner

Yes even I was little suprised by Linode support's answer.

And regarding the Lish shell. Yes it indeed works. I could use it instead of putty. I tried using it to troubleshoot the problem. However my major concern is, I cant login to using filezilla. I have constant code changes to be updated, which I am currently not able to do.

[quote="maxim@inovvorx.com"]@kyrunner

Yes even I was little suprised by Linode support's answer.

I have constant code changes to be updated, which I am currently not able to do.

I'm not understanding this.

I can use Linode's Lish instead of putty. So that isnt a problem.

However I cannot login using filezilla, to upload my web application files(jsps,css,images,js files) onto the server. I am using filezilla as the ftp, but its not let me login. I get a connection timeout issue.

What OS are you running? Centos,Ubuntu?

It is a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

I meant my server OS is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I am using windows 7 with filezilla to try and connect.

What is the output of this command?

service vsftpd status

@Kyrunner: Thanks for the interest shown.

The output of the command mentioned is
vsftpd: unrecognized service

You are running this on your Linode server correct?

Don't run it on your windows machine run it on your Ubuntu server.

Yes Indeed. I used the Lish linode console to run this command. And this was the error reported.