Intermitttent Issue : dial tcp <ip>:22: connect: connection refused

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Since Mar 5, 2025.

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Describe the bug

We are intermittently encountering an issue where we are unable to connect to a VM. Before attempting to connect, we proactively check whether the machine is online. Only if it is online do we proceed with the connection using the SSH GitHub Action. Despite these precautions, the issue occurs occasionally, but it mostly resolves after a rerun.

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Yaml Config

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      - name: Wait for machine to be online
        run: |
          while ! nc -w10 -z -v $vmIpAddress 22;do echo "Waiting for machine to be online..."; done
        id: vm_ip_address   

      - name: Exporting variables to bash profile
        uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
        with:
          command_timeout: 60m
          host: ${{ steps.vm_ip_address.outputs.IP_ADDRESS }}
          username: azureuser
          key: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY }}
          port: 22
          script: |
              HOME_DIR="/home/azureuser"

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Related environment

Please provide the following information:

  1. Your hosting provider information, such as DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, or GCP.
    • Azure
  2. The version information of your host's SSH service.
    • latest ('@master')
  3. The information from your host's SSH configuration file.
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