By taylor280302
I’ve turned on private networking on two droplets, but I can’t even get them to ping each other over the private network. Any help?
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Hi @kamaln7, I have the same problem. I did all the steps you mentioned and still no luck connecting to mysql. But running nc -zv database-droplet-ip 3306 succeeded w/ my ufw on, the database ip I used is the private network address. When I try to turn off my ufw I have no trouble connecting to mysql, also when I allow my public ip on ufw it connects perfectly.
Do you have a firewall installed that might be blocking ICMP packets? I believe UFW does that by default. If you’re using UFW, try disabling it and trying to run ping again.
Also, what’s the output of the following command?
sudo sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all
nc -zv database-droplet-ip 3306 timed out (I replaced database-droplet-ip with the private network ip of the database droplet).
sudo netstat -plutn | grep 3306 on the database droplet returned:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 8312/mysqld
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