Accessing remote kibana/ES from client : time out

Question

I am trying to access kibana/elastic search on a VPS from my computer.

On the VPS if I

curl -XGET 'http://SERVERIP:9200'

I get a good answer from ES, and same with Kibana.

On my computer, if I use the same commands I get timed out (for both kibana and ES) :

curl: (7) Failed to connect to SERVERIP port 9200: Connection timed out

Server runs Debian 8.

I think server is rejecting client connection so I did

sudo netstat -tulpen

To try to understand why.

For ES and kibana I have

tcp 0 0 SERVERIP:5601 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 111 19051 1832/node
tcp6 0 0 SERVERIP:9200 :::* LISTEN 110 19054 1784/java

Which I think means that anyone should be able to curl SERVERIP:5601. I don't know about

:::*

for ES tho.

Server also runs a apache2 server for an html website which adress is SERVERIP.

kibana.yml and elasticsearch.yml have server.host = SERVERIP

@Mike Hey thank you for answering. I didn't install a firewall. Is it possible that VPS provider blocks these ports silently ? — NanoPish, Oct 20 '17 at 12:36
its possible there's a firewall for your VPS on the providers consol/portal — Mike, Oct 20 '17 at 12:40
@Mike It was because of firewall of local wifi distributor. Do you want to add an answer ? — NanoPish, Oct 20 '17 at 14:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '17 at 15:53

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Check to make sure there is no firewall of your provider or device in from of the server.

answered Oct 20 '17 at 15:53

Mike

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