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I have two computers: Ubuntu1 and Ubuntu2. Ubuntu1 runs MongoDB with database Sacred3. I want to run connect from U2 to U1 via ssh and store there my experiment results.

What I tried and failed: 1. I installed mongo DB, created sacred3, I have ssh key to it. I edited /etc/mongod.conf adding:

# network interfaces net: port: 27017 bindIp: 0.0.0.0

Then I enabled port forwarding with

ssh -fN -i ~/.ssh/sacred_key-pair.pem -L 6666:localhost:27017 [email protected] // (with proper ip)

so, as I undertstand, if I connect to my localhost:6666 it will be forwarded to 106.969.696.969:27017

So after that, I'm runnig an experiment with Sacred framework:

python exp1.py -m localhost:6666:sacred3

and this should write experiment to remote DB, HOWEVER i I get:

pymongo.errors.ServerSelectionTimeoutError: localhost:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused

which is driving me mad. please help!

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  • your ssh tunnel (X:host:Y) command suggests that your localhot:6666 is forwarded to localhost:27017, and not 106.969.whatever:27017. If you want do set that up, you should have something like -L localhost:6666:106.969.696.969:27017. mongo is not listening on the loopback. Commented Oct 15, 2019 at 15:19

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Your error says pymongo is looking for mongod on localhost:27017

pymongo.errors.ServerSelectionTimeoutError: localhost:27017

But it isn't there, you've forwarded it to localhost:6666. The connection string in your code must have a hardcoded default you'll need to edit.

Or, if nothing is running on localhost:27017 you can tunnel directly:

ssh -fN -i ~/.ssh/sacred_key-pair.pem -L 27017:localhost:27017 [email protected]

Other useful commands are

  • List ssh processes

ps aux | grep ssh

  • Which process is using a port (27107 in this case)

sudo netstat -lnpt | awk '$4 ~ /:27107/ {sub(/\/.*/, "", $7); print $7}'

  • Free up a port by killing the process using it

kill <pid>

Also bind to local host, using 0.0.0.0 is making mongodb available to anyone anywhere that can reach the server. 

net: port: 27017 bindIp: 127.0.0.1
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