Difficulty connecting with SFTP

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What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.40.1 (stable)
How are you able to access your server: The webadmin
Are you in a special context or did you perform specific tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?: no

Describe your issue

When connecting to my webserver I get the following error message in Filezilla:

Status: Connecting to onefish.dev…
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=11
Command: open “my_webapp__2@onefish.dev” 22
Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error: Could not connect to server

Please help!

Share relevant logs or error messages

No logs atm.

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Did you change your ssh port? If yes, use that port for sftp

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I figured it out! My computer was resolving my domain through IPV6, and the server isn’t configured for SFTP over IPV6. The simplest solution(but not the best) was to turn off IPV6 on my PC.