By arhan
I have Floating IP attached to droplet and its working fine in all case except git. I have bitbucket local server (repository only accessible within internal network) If I white list droplet IPv4 to access in droplet git works fine and I am able to clone but if white list Floating IP and try to access repository via Floating IP it gives the following error fatal: unable to access ‘<<url>>’: Failed to connect to <<url>> port 7990: Connection timed out.
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Hello, arhan
Is port 7990 open at both ends (TCP - Incoming and Outgoing) . You can also run a traceroute or mtr to the the floating IP address and see if you’re able to connect. As I can see you’re trying to connect on a specific port, you would need to specify the port as well.
traceroute floating.ip.address 7990
Let me know how it goes.
Alex
Hi,
Jumping in here. Just to be clear, based on your last comment, it seems you are trying to connect from your droplet to an external service, using the floating IP address. While true the floating IP is designed to work by default for inbound traffic, it is possible to use it for outgoing traffic if your software supports selecting a specific interface.
I dug around a little and found this older question and answer (plus some good comments on top of that) about doing exactly this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/send-outbound-traffic-over-floating-ip
One other note, if you have an older droplet (2015 or earlier) you may need to take additional steps to get this working.
Hope this helps and good luck! let us know how it goes
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