EC2 instance is blocking all outbound connections, how to diagnose/fix?

Posted by Fraggle on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Fraggle
Published on 2012-04-05T16:34:41Z Indexed on 2012/04/05 17:32 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 317

Filed under:
|

My EC2 instance is blocking all outbound connections.

wget http://www.google.com  ==> Hangs
ping google.com ==>hangs
ssh user@anyserver ==>hangs

I ran : sudo iptables -F to eliminate all rules to no avail

AWS Management console shows Security Group for that instance has Inbound rule allowing ssh and port 80. Can't find anything about Outbound rules there.

Rebooted instance, no change.

If anyone knows how to diagnose or fix, please help.

Adding info:

[ec2-user@ip-10-112-62-73 ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 12:31:3D:06:31:BB  
          inet addr:10.112.62.73  Bcast:10.112.63.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::1031:3dff:fe06:31bb/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1933 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1764 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:164075 (160.2 KiB)  TX bytes:343256 (335.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:9 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:672 (672.0 b)  TX bytes:672 (672.0 b)


[ec2-user@ip-10-112-62-73 ~]$ ip route show
10.112.62.0/23 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.112.62.73 
default via 10.112.62.1 dev eth0 

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about amazon-ec2

Related posts about outboundrules