Binding external IP address to Rabbit MQ server

Question

I have box A and it has a consumer on it that listens on a Rabbit MQ server

I have box B that will publish a message to the listener

So as long as all of this in

Answer 1

did you try adding?

RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS=box.a.ip.addy

to the /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf file?

Per http://www.rabbitmq.com/configure.html#customise-general-unix-environment

Also per this documentation it states that the default is to bind to all interfaces. Perhaps there is a configuration setting or environment variable already set in your system to restrict the server to localhost overriding anything else you do.

UPDATE: After reading again I realize that the telnet should have returned "Connection Refused" not "No route to host." I would also check to see if you are having a firewall related issue.

Answer 2

You need to open up the tcp port on your firewall

Using Linux, Find the iptables config file:

eric@dev ~$ find / -name "iptables" 2>/dev/null
/etc/sysconfig/iptables

Edit the file:

sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Fix the file by adding a port:

# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Thu Jan 16 16:43:13 2014
*filter
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 15672 -j ACCEPT
COMMIT