ssh connection refused from mac os x on connecting to a remote computer

Question

I am running on Mac OS X 10.7.4.
I am unable to ssh to a remote computer, but when I do ssh user@localhost, it works fine.

The error displayed is

 OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to web.iiit.ac.in [14.139.82.8] port 22. debug1: connect to address 14.139.82.8 port 22: Connection refused ssh: connect to host web.iiit.ac.in port 22: Connection refused 

I have enabled the root login in System Preferences and disabled firewall.

Also, ps aux | grep ssh shows ssh-agent, contains /usr/bin/ssh-agent -l and grep ssh in the output.

On doing sudo launchctl list|grep ssh it shows:

• 0 com.openssh.sshd

After this, sudo launchctl start com.openssh.sshd ; sudo launchctl list|grep ssh gives 45973 - com.openssh.sshd

Again, after checking sudo launchctl list|grep ssh after sometime, it again shows : - 0 com.openssh.sshd

Answer 1

In system preferences -> sharing->enable remote login. It will fix it.

Answer 2

Wireless connections has well know problems with the SSH strict package receiving algorithm. I have the same problem with a WiMax connection. It would turn good if you can establish a VPN or any kind of tunnel to the server.

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