I am trying to configure a raspberry pi zero w so that my group and I can connect to it remotely. I have done this a few times before, but have recently hit a snag.
I have set up SSH to be listening in on port 11420 on my pi. I have verified this using netstat:
Over LAN, I AM able to connect to the pi with ssh without a hitch. Things get strange when I try to connect over the internet. I have done port forwarding for ssh on r-pis and servers in the past, but I am having serious issues this time. I have a Spectrum router, model SAC2V2S, and have opened external port 11420 and pointed to internal port 11420 on the pi. For whatever reason, any time I try to connect using BitVise SSH client I get this error:
"Connection failed. FlowSocketConnector: Failed to connect to target address. Windows error 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."
I have been playing around by switching the external ports up. I changed the external port to 22 and the problem continues, however when I changed the external port to 120 the error code changed to 10060. I AM able to connect to ssh on the pi itself using ssh localhost when I set the port to 22. Using canyouseeme.org I have verified that the external ports have been open in every case. Furthermore, I have also tried connecting to SSH using JuiceSSH on my phone over LTE; the app continuously asks me for my password. Just as a quick sanity check, I have also verified that everything is on the same network and there are no other r-pis on my home network; its just my desktop and the pi in question.
At first I thought this might be an issue with my firewall on the pi, so I verified that ufw is set to allow ssh and to allow the ports in question. I even went as far as disabling ufw entirely and I still get the same error in bitvise. Finally, I just went ahead and unplugged the pi and tried connecting to it. When this happens, I get a similar error saying that the connected host has failed to respond as expected.
