Access a localhost running in Windows from inside WSL2? [closed]

Short answer for most recent Windows versions mDNS has been a feature of WSL2 for a while now. Concatenating your WSL2 hostname (or the equivalent command/function in your programming/language environment) with “.local” should get you access. For example, from Bash, try: ping “$(hostname).local” For instance, if your hostname is “MyComputer”, then the mDNS should be … Read more

Test if port open and forwarded using PHP

I’m not sure what you mean by being “forwarded properly”, but hopefully this example will do the trick: $host=”stackoverflow.com”; $ports = array(21, 25, 80, 81, 110, 443, 3306); foreach ($ports as $port) { $connection = @fsockopen($host, $port); if (is_resource($connection)) { echo ‘<h2>’ . $host . ‘:’ . $port . ‘ ‘ . ‘(‘ . getservbyport($port, … Read more

SSH -L connection successful, but localhost port forwarding not working “channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused”

ssh -v -L 8783:localhost:8783 [email protected] … channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused When you connect to port 8783 on your local system, that connection is tunneled through your ssh link to the ssh server on server.com. From there, the ssh server makes TCP connection to localhost port 8783 and relays data between the … Read more

Virtualbox “port forward” from Guest to Host [closed]

Network communication Host -> Guest Connect to the Guest and find out the ip address: ifconfig example of result (ip address is 10.0.2.15): eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:AE:36:99 inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Go to Vbox instance window -> Menu -> Network adapters: adapter should be NAT click on “port forwarding” insert new record (+ icon) … Read more

port forwarding in windows

I’ve solved it, it can be done executing: netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=4422 listenaddress=192.168.1.111 connectport=80 connectaddress=192.168.0.33 To remove forwarding: netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenport=4422 listenaddress=192.168.1.111 Official docs