Error in binding https address

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I am running the following command on an AWS ubuntu x86_64 18.04 node:

lxc config set core.https_address [<local IP>]:8443

I am receiving the following error:

Error: cannot listen on https socket: listen tcp <local IP>:8443: bind: cannot assign requested address

The same problem is happening on the remote IP as well. I have successfully run a container and taken a snapshot of it on the local node. Please help. Thanks.

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That usually means that the address you entered doesn’t actually match one of the local addresses.

Do you see that address in ip -4 addr show?

3

Thanks for your reply. I used the public IP addresses displayed on the AWS dashboard. I’ll check and get back to you with this.

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Yeah, that won’t work, those addresses are not held by the instance itself but by some firewall outside of the instance. core.https_address must be set to the address of the instance.

Or you can set it to :8443 to bind all local addresses.

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I binded to the private addresses instead. Thanks for pointing that out.