GCP VM ECONNREFUSED with completely open firewalls - google-cloud-platform

I have a few gcp virtual machines setup with external IPs and http/https turned on.
Also added completely open firewall ingress/egress rules...
However when I try to reach the external IP it refuses to connect.
Here is the result of running netstat -a
Also when describing my instance I can verify it is running and setup on http/https firewall

I had to add the specific port to the request url. In my case it was
JSONRPC_URL=http://EXTERNAL-IP:8545

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Can't run GCP VM on public IP with SSH

I am setting up a Virtual Machine node.js server at Google Cloud Platform. I have set up SSH keys so that I can log into my VM. I can successfully log into my VM using SSH-in-browser and start my server.
I can't access my public IP address through Chrome. I get this message:
This site can’t provide a secure connection.
When I try to connect to the IP within SSH-in-browser, I get the following:
$ curl -vso /dev/null --connect-timeout 5 34.68.254.120:8080
* Trying 34.68.254.120:8080...
* connect to 34.68.254.120 port 8080 failed: Connection refused
* Failed to connect to 34.68.254.120 port 8080: Connection refused
* Closing connection 0
I'm new at this. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
Edit1: Some more details --
Linux VM
port 8080 ingress is open on the firewall
I'm using OSLogin (`enable-oslogin = TRUE' 'enable-oslogin-sk = FALSE')
I can successfully log into console with both SSH-in-Browser and PuTTY, and I can start my server on port 8080
In both, I get the error above when I try to connect to the IP address
EDIT:
Follow below steps to fix “This Site Can’t Provide a Secure Connection” Error :
This error typically indicates a problem with either your browser’s configuration or the SSL certificate on your site.
1) Your local environment doesn’t have an SSL certificate.
2) Outdated SSL caches in the browser : (This is one of the more popular causes. Web browsers store SSL certificates in a cache, much
like other data. This means they don’t have to verify the certificate
every time you visit a site, which speeds up browsing. However, if
your SSL certificate changes and the browser is still loading an
older, cached version, it can cause this error to pop up).
3) Incorrect time and date settings on your computer.
4) Rogue browser extensions.
5) Overzealous antivirus software.
6) An invalid or expired SSL certificate.
If your firewall rules prevent external access:
Check your firewall rules with the following command: gcloud compute firewall-rules list with this, you can review the VPC where
the VM instance was migrated; and if it has allowed the Ingress TCP:
22 Port.
If this firewall rule is missing, you can add the firewall rule in the GCP console -> VPC Networks ->select your VPC network _Click on
the firewall rules to double check that the tcp: 22 port is allowed.
If the issue still is ongoing after checking the firewall rules, you
can follow this guide to start troubleshooting SSH connection.

Can't access Google Cloud Compute Instance External IP (boot fedora35)

I have a nodejs app running inside it a vm instance.
I created a firewall rule opening port tcp:5000.
It works locally (inside vm) and I am able to verify the connection via
sudo wget http://localhost:5000
this gives status 200 ok.
when I replace the localhost with the vm external Ip address I get a connection time out.
I have tried most things I could get on the internet but now I am tired. Its my first time interacting with gcp so I guess it's expected.
The Network tags on the VM instance do not match your firewall rule inventory-controller-port. The Compute Engine Instance has these network tags http-server, https-server. To resolve this issue, these are your options.
Update the Firewall rule inventory-controller-port and add these network tags http-server, https-server. For more information, check this documentation about updating firewall rules.
Add additional network tags that you added on the Firewall rule inventory-controller-port on your existing VM. To know more check this documentation about Adding tags to an existing VM.

Problem connecting 2 external IP Google Cloud Platafform

I created my VM(Google Cloud Platform), working with Windows Server 2008 R2. So i installed a program that needs the port 6900 opened to run. The program for work must connect to it own server that is: 200.229.50.3:6900. So i entered in the firewall rules of Google Cloud Platform, put ip as 0.0.0.0/0 and opened the port 6900. Also entered in the advanced configures of firewall on my VM, and also allowed the port 6900. Tried to run the program and failed, tried to run telnet to test and failed. Already checked security settings, disabled firewall, etc. I don't know whats is happening.
Follow my Google Cloud Platafform Firewall Rules bellow:
Firewall Rules
Follow my instance Firewall Rules:
Instance Firewall Rules
Follow the program getting error trying to connect on it own server:
Program error
If someone want enter in my instance to check better it, can download the RDP file from here: RDP file
my external ip: 104.198.152.164
user: lala2018
password: ^#0aQaaz)MXbMNy
The program that the error is ocurring is on the desktop with the name xstart.
Feel free to run it, and try to understand what is the problem, because i can't find reasons for it isn't running right.
Someone can help me?
Edit 1:
Follow my VPC routting:
VPC 1 VPC 2
Edit 2:
Traced Route - 200.229.50.3
After seeing the screenshot of the message you attached, it looks like you are trying to connect from a GCP instance to the server "200.229.50.3" whose IP address belongs to "LEVEL UP! INTERACTIVE LTDA" in Brasil; however, seems "200.229.50.3" is not allowing you to connect ("200.229.50.3" it doesn't respond). If this is correct, you may have to create firewall rules in "200.229.50.3" instead of creating them in GCP.
I can see you have three rules to permit ingress and egress traffic from and to the GCP instances but none of them affects to "200.229.50.3" because this server doesn't belong to the GCP project:
- The GCP firewall rule named "testeee" allows incoming connections from the IP address 200.229.50.3 to all instances within your GCP project through the port 6900.
- The Windows firewall rule named "Port 6900" allows connections from any IP outside the Windows server through the port 6900.
- The GCP firewall rules "mean-stack" and "exit900" are allowing egress traffic from GCP instances to any IP outside the GCP project through the port 6900.
I tried to establish a telnet connection to 200.229.50.3:6900 but it doesn't respond. This could be normal because there could be a firewall in that server which is not allowing connections from my IP address; however, I have to ask the following:
Can you confirm 200.229.50.3 is allowing connections through the port 6900 from your GCP Instance?

AWS t2.micro EC2 instance running JetBrains YouTrack on port 80. Cannot access YouTrack on public IP

I have installed IntelliJ YouTrack running on port 80 on a Windows Server 2012 t2.micro EC2 instance on AWS.
I am able to access YouTrack when I remote desktop into the machine and enter http://localhost or http:// or http://. Therefore I know the application is up and running on the expected port.
I have whitelisted my ip by adding the relevant inbound rule under the security group settings for the instance.
I was assuming that was the only necessary step to allow inbound connections to that specific port. However I cannot access YouTrack when I enter the public IP of the instance on my web-browser from the whitelisted IP. Also what I find more confusing is when I try to enter http:// within the remote desktop of the instance, I am still unable to connect.
What am I missing for enabling incoming connections to a port on my EC2 t2.micro instance?
I appreciate all the advice.
It seems that Windows firewall was running and blocking the connections beyond the security group settings. Opening port 80 within Windows firewall fixed the issue.
When I first ran into the issue I typed "Firewall" into the start search. First result was "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security". When I opened that I got the error "There was an error opening Windows Firewall with Advanced Security snap-in". I immediately assumed AWS eliminated the firewall service from the windows builds to force customers to prefer the security group controls of the AWS console.
Embarassingly I have just now tried the second option in the list "Windows Firewall" which showed the normal windows firewall being active and of course blocking incoming connections to port 80. I have added the exceptions to the required ports and the issue was immediately resolved.
I hope this helps someone else out there.

Connection getting refused to socket.io server on Amazon EC2

I have set up a a micro EC2 instance on AWS. Currently, I am using the free tier in Oregon. There are two problems which I am facing.
When I try to SSH the instance using the public DNS, it says host does not exist but when I try conencting it using the public IP, it connects to it. What setting is needed to use the public DNS ?
I have opened the SSH client using the IP address. I want to set up my application which needs Node.js and MongoDB. I installed Node.js using this
Next I installed MongoDB using this
Then I connected to my instance using Filezilla and uploaded my code to it. I then start my node application which uses socket.io.
When I try to connect to socket.io server using web browser, I get a message which says connection refused "error 111". I have opened TCP port 80 in instance's security groups. In iptables, I have forwarded port 80 to 8080, but still it does not work. I have also checked that the firewall is disabled in ec2. Kindly help me to resolve this issue.
Did you check if all of the necessary ports are open on Amazon Security Policy?
What you can do is to allow all traffic on Amazon Security Policy for test and see if the connection goes well or not.
You might also check if you need access DB from outside. In that case, you also have to open the mongodb port and setup mongodb correctly as well.
Other tools that might useful to test firewall and connection issue will be tcpdump and syslog file
For the dns issue, did you try to nslookup on that name and see if the IP shown matches your server IP?
As Amazon gives a long DNS hostname for the server, I always use my own domain name. It's much easier.
example : ec2.domainname.com, which points to the Amazon IP address
Hope that help.
My problem is resolved now..
For the DNS issue, earlier I needed proxy to access internet, so I guess the DNS name was not getting resolved. When I tried using proxy free internet, I was able to ssh using public DNS.
And regarding connection to socket.io, I used port 8080 instead of 80 and used "sudo node main.js" to run my node file. Now I am able to connect to the socket.io server and MongoDB.
Another thing which I want to ask is that would running the node file with sudo rights create some security issue ?
Thanks for the answer! That also worked for me. I had the same problem trying to connect through sockets (http://myipaddress:3000) to a node.js server, i tried opening ports on the actual ec2 instance and disabling the firewall through SSH but nothing worked. Had to go to Security Groups on the ec2 console and open a new inbound tcp rule enabling that port