Can't access Ubuntu web server from local machine

Question

I'm running python paste http server on port 8087 on Ubuntu 11.10

nmap says 8087/tcp is open

ufw firewall is inactive

But if I pull its local ip up (192.168.1.50:8087) on another local network machine, it cannot connect.

I can ping 192.168.1.50 on the local network machine fine. I can't telnet into port 8087 though, that tells me something is blocking it?

Been at this for a couple hours 0_o

Any help appreciated

Answer 1

it is bound to 127.0.0.1:8087 – Vigrond 46 secs ago

That's your problem. You need to reconfigure your paste server to bind to either 192.168.1.50 or to 0.0.0.0; 127.0.0.1 is a loopback interface that doesn't accept connections from outside.