Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Question

I have created vm instance in gcloud. And setup firewall rule to allow connection from port 5000.I added network tag to my vm instance.

But if i test the connection by teneting to port 5000 I get

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Content of netstat -lnp

Solution

From your netstat output there is nothing listening on the port 5000 so connection is refused.

Comments

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I am using ubuntu-server 16.04. I tried sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5000 -j ACCEPT With No luck

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I tried **sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5000 -j ACCEPT ** with no luck. The content of netstat still not showing port 5000 listening. I am using ubuntu 16.04

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Any Idea how to resolve this?