Cloning over ssh only excepts ip, not domain name

Install/Maintain/Configure
1

I have a gitea instance running on a DO droplet.
I edited my app.ini file to include:

DISABLE_SSH = false
SSH_PORT = 2222
SSH_LISTEN_PORT  = 2222
SSH_DOMAIN = git.stuylinux.org
START_SSH_SERVER = true

Then restarted gitea.service.
When I ssh into the server at port 2222 it returns:

PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Hi there, axelKeizoStahl! You've successfully authenticated with the key named latptop_gateway, but Gitea does not provide shell access.
If this is unexpected, please log in with password and setup Gitea under another user.

I think that is right ^^

But then when I try to git clone (after adding my pub key of course), it just outputs nothing, it seems to be hung:

~/tmp ❯ git clone ssh://stuylinux_admin@git.stuylinux.org:2222/axelKeizoStahl/dwl.git
Cloning into 'dwl'...

Thanks for the help, let me know if you want more information.

2

Also, once that clone command runs for long enough, it outputs:

ssh: connect to host git.stuylinux.org port 2222: Connection timed out
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Does this mean that that file does not exist? maybe the path is bad or something?

3

actually, when I ssh to git.stuylinux.org, it doesnt work, but when I ssh to the ip addr that that domain points to, it works.
I’m not sure why this is. I turned off cloudflare proxy in case it was that, otherwise I’m really not sure.

The same is true for cloning

4

You should try cloning without the ssh:// protocol explicitly passed, git doesn’t seem to like it.

If your domain resolves to the same IP, then it should make no difference for SSH as far as I know. Maybe something wrong with configured DNS resolver.