Can't curl over private network

Hello !

I have two http apps that I want to be able to communicate via the private network :

  • front
  • api

The .internal address of api is properly resolved in the front service (ping ok), but I have a connection refused if I try to curl api directly on its listening port.
I also tried deploying api with the [http_service] section to publicly expose ports 80 and 443 but I also get a connection refused on those ports when curling the .internal address from the front service.

  • Both apps are deployed in the same region within the same organization
  • API is bound to 0.0.0.0:3000

Does someone have an idea on how to debug/fix this ?

Requests to .internal addresses go straight to the target machine, not through the reverse proxy. You’ll want to send requests to the internal_port for the target service instead of the public HTTP/HTTPS port.

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Can you share the complete command you are using?

@btoews @darkcheftar007 I’m directly curling the internal_port inside the front service

# fly ssh console -a front
# apk add curl
# curl -v api.internal:3000
*   Trying [fdaa:0:****:***:****:****:****:*]:3000...
* connect to fdaa:0:****:***:****:****:****:* port 3000 failed: Connection refused
* Failed to connect to api.internal port 3000 after 1 ms: Couldn't connect to server
* Closing connection
curl: (7) Failed to connect to api.internal port 3000 after 1 ms: Couldn't connect to server

The API service is properly listening

# fly ssh console -a api
# netstat -lntp
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      303/next-router-wor
tcp        0      0 fdaa:0:****:***:****:****:****:*:22 :::*        LISTEN      304/hallpass
# apk add curl
# curl localhost:3000/health
{"status":"success"}

I found a solution by binding API to its 6pn address : fly-local-6pn instead of the ipv4 0.0.0.0.

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