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I am using socket library in python and want to connect client (my computer) to server (AWS EC2 Windows instance). But client always give error:- "TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"

Solutions that I had already implemented:-

  1. Edit security group to enable required incoming ports.
  2. Allocate static IP for EC2 instance
  3. Restart EC2
  4. Enable incoming port from windows firewall inside EC2 instance

When I go to task manager >> performance >> Resourece Monitor, I can see that port is open:-

  • NetWork Activity

Image PID Address Send (B/sec) Receive (B/sec) Total (B/sec)

pythonw.exe 1456 EC2AMAZ-XXXXXX 627 647 1,274

  • TCP Connections

Image PID Local Address Local Port Remote Address Remote Port Packet Loss (%) Latency (ms)

pythonw.exe 1456 IPv4 loopback 50770 IPv4 loopback 50769 0 0

  • Listening Ports

Image PID Address Port Protocol Firewall Status

pythonw.exe 1456 IPv4 loopback 3469 TCP Allowed, not restricted

But I am still not able to ping EC2 on required port (telnet PUBLIC_IP PORT). And hence client is not able to connect via socket.

server.py

import socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
port = 3469

s.bind(('localhost', port))
print ('Socket binded to port 3469')

s.listen(1)
print ('socket is listening')





while True:

    try:

        print('waiting for connection')
        connection, client_address = s.accept()
        print ('Got connection from ', client_address)

        data = connection.recv(16)
        print('received {!r}'.format(data))

        connection.close(); s.close();break;

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        connection.close(); s.close();break;

Client.py

import socket 


s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)


port = 3469


s.connect(('EC2-PUBLIC-IP-ADDRESS-OF-EC2-HERE', port))

z = 'Hello World'


s.sendall(z.encode())

s.close()

This code works perfectly fine when both server and client are on localhost.

Can't figure out what is missing. Please help.

Thanks and Regards

Rishi
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s.bind(('localhost', port))

You appear to only be listening on localhost which is the loopback address and not available on the public internet.

user570574
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