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How do I make two VMs in Digital Ocean communicate?

Posted on August 22, 2025

How do I set up communication between Digital Ocean VMs? I created two VMs, but they can’t communicate with each other!



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Heya,

How are you trying to make them communicate between themselves?

Make sure the VMs themselves don’t have restrictive iptables or ufw rules blocking the traffic and also if you are trying to reach them through SSH make sure to allow them on the said ports and so on. If you give more info, I can further help you out.

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