connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

Question

While installing hadoop in my local machine , i got following error

ssh -vvv localhost 
OpenSSH_5.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011 
debug1: Reading configura         


        

Answer 1

A way to do is to go to terminal

$ sudo gedit /etc/hosts

***enter your ip address ipaddress of your pc  localhost 
    ipaddress of your pc  localhost(Edit your pc name with localhost) **

and again restart your ssh service using:

$ service ssh restart

Problem will be resolve. Thanks