Consul Server port 8500 not available outside the server

Sathiya Shunmugasundaram

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Sep 23, 2015, 2:24:59 PM9/23/15

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I am not able to connect to Consul server port 8500 from anywhere outside the server. I can see netstat showing port 8500 listening.

I am currently running a consul agent in every server I need to connect to consul to get around the issue.

Any suggestions are appreciated

Thx

Sathiya

James Phillips

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Sep 23, 2015, 2:32:34 PM9/23/15

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HI Sathiya,

By default Consul only binds the HTTP socket to the loopback interface, so it's only available on that host. You can control that with the -client option, see https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_client.

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Sathiya Shunmugasundaram

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Sep 23, 2015, 2:35:24 PM9/23/15

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Thx Phil. Can I run a server also with Client mode using -client {host_ip} option?

Thx

Sathiya

James Phillips

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Sep 23, 2015, 2:38:18 PM9/23/15

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Yeah that should work for a server or for an agent.

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