无法通过SSH连接到AWS EC2实例上运行的MongoDB

Question

I have an Amazaon AWS EC2 instance running MongoDB 3.2.10 which I set up using these instrunctions . I'm able to Putty into my EC2 instance and enter the MongoDB shell by calling mongo --port 27017 in the Putty shell, so the mongod daemon is running just fine on that machine.

I set up an SSH tunnel from my machine to the EC2 instance, mapping port 12345 on my machine to 27017 on the remote EC2 instance. However when I try to connect to MongoDB from my local windows machine by calling mongo --port 12345 , the mongo shell client hangs for about a minute and returns:

connecting to: 127.0.0.1:12345/test
2016-10-31T11:31:39.727-0700 I NETWORK  [thread1] Socket recv() errno:10054 An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. 127.0.0.1:12345
2016-10-31T11:31:39.727-0700 I NETWORK  [thread1] SocketException: remote: (NONE):0 error: 9001 socket exception [RECV_ERROR] server [127.0.0.1:12345]
2016-10-31T11:31:39.728-0700 E QUERY    [thread1] Error: network error while attempting to run command 'isMaster' on host '127.0.0.1:12345'  :
connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:231:14
@(connect):1:6

exception: connect failed

By way of background, I also have an Amazon RDS running MySQL and listening to port 3306 on the EC2 instance, and an SSH tunnel mapping port 6789 on my local machine to port 3306 on the EC2 instance, and I have no problems connecting to the MySQL database via mysql -P 6789 -u user_name -p , so the problem is specific to MongoDB.

As for connectivity, I have Putty's keepalive option set to 1, and the following PowerShell script test returns true for both SSH tunnel ports, so the tunnels are definitely connected:

function test-connection{
    param($IP,$PORT)
    $connected = $FALSE
    $s = New-Object Net.Sockets.TcpClient
    try{
        $s.Connect($IP,$PORT)
        $connected = !!$s.connected
    }catch{
        #PASS
    }finally{
        $s.close()
    }
    $connected
}
test-connection "127.0.0.1" 12345
test-connection "127.0.0.1" 6789

Answer 1

Check the bindIp in your mongod.conf

This specifies which IP addresses the mongod can listen to. By default it only accept the localhost