Can SSH locally but not remotely

Question

I have seen many thread on this and I cannot understand why it is not working for me.
I had SSH server working yesterday and today it stopped working.
/etc/hosts.allow
# /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: ALL
# End of file
~
/etc/hosts.deny
# /etc/hosts.deny
ALL: ALL: DENY
# End of file
~
/etc/ssh/sshd
# $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.82 2010/09/06 17:10:19 naddy Exp $
# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See
# sshd_config(5) for more information.
# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
# possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a
# default value.
Port 2222
#AddressFamily any
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::
# The default requires explicit activation of protocol 1
#Protocol 2
# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
#KeyRegenerationInterval 1h
#ServerKeyBits 1024
# Logging
# obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
#SyslogFacility AUTH
#LogLevel INFO
# Authentication:
#LoginGraceTime 2m
#PermitRootLogin yes
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6
#MaxSessions 10
#RSAAuthentication yes
#PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
#RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you do not trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes
# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
#PasswordAuthentication yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no
# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
#KerberosGetAFSToken no
# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
# PasswordAuthentication. Depending on your PAM configuration,
# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
# If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
# PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
UsePAM yes
#AllowAgentForwarding yes
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#X11Forwarding no
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression delayed
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#UseDNS yes
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10
#PermitTunnel no
#ChrootDirectory none
# no default banner path
#Banner none
# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
# Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis
#Match User anoncvs
# X11Forwarding no
# AllowTcpForwarding no
# ForceCommand cvs server
I have confirmed that port is opened on canyouseeme.com.
I have forwarded the port.
ssh -v -p 2222 [email protected]
OpenSSH_6.0p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to xx.xxx.xxx.xx [xx.xxx.xxx.xx] port 2222.
debug1: connect to address xx.xxx.xxx.xx port 2222: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host xx.xxx.xxx.xx port 2222: Connection timed out
Also I do not have any iptables set up. I have never used them

Answer 1

Thank you for the responses.
Sorry I ment to say I verified at http://www.canyouseeme.org/
My /var/log/auth.log doesn't really have anything interesting. except when verifying with site above
Aug 1 18:36:19 localhost sshd[30563]: Did not receive identification string from 8.23.224.110
Not sure if i'm using telnet right
[miles]> telnet 192.168.0.11 2222
Trying 192.168.0.11...
Connected to 192.168.0.11.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0
[miles]> telnet [email protected] 2222
[email protected]/2222: lookup failure: Name or service not known
[miles]> telnet [email protected] 2222
[email protected]/2222: lookup failure: Name or service not known
I don't believe i'm running systemd or any special initscripts (please advise me if you need to view anything).
Yes I have tried rebooting my system