I have been given a VM in Windows Azure with Windows Server 2008 R2/ IIS 8.0 running. It has a default website. Now I wanted to create a dev version of that site at some other port, say 81. I added that application and added inbound rule in the firewall for tcp port 81.
Now I can browse the site on that machine using http://localhost:81, but externally I am unable to browse or connect. For the site I used binding to
http – Any unassigned IP – Port 81 – (hostname left blank)
Here is the fiddler response
[Fiddler] The connection to 'originaldomainname' failed.
Error: TimedOut (0x274c).
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond XXX.XX.XXX.XX:81
What can I do to troubleshoot the connection. Is the ISP blocking that port's traffic? Originally I tried to do that on port 8080 but that had the same problem
Edit
When I do netstat -ano | find ":81" I get this
TCP 0.0.0.0:81 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4
TCP [::]:81 [::]:0 LISTENING 4
How can I make an entry here? with the public ip as foreign address and private ip as local one.
Best Answer
There are 2 things you have to do for this to work on a VM on Azure.
Windows Firewall
Make sure you have a firewall rule that allows connection over TCP to port 81. It should look like this
Azure Firewall
In Azure portal, go to your VM. Then click on the endpoints tab and add a rule for port 81 as well
it should look like this