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I have created a SSH Tunnel to my memcached server as follows:

 ssh -f -N user@56.55.55.56 -L 11211:127.0.0.1:11211

When i do netstat on my machine i get the following: So far looks good.

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:11211    0.0.0.0:*    LISTEN      976/ssh

The issue shows up when I telnet to the server as follows:

telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
Connection closed by foreign host.

So I went to the memcached server and tailed the auth.log file and found this message overytime i try to telnet to the server:

Apr  4 13:56:06 vmcachd sshd[1410]: error: connect_to 127.0.0.1 port 11211: failed.

Does anyone know what is the issue, I have a similar setup with postgresql and it works perfectly fine! Any help is appreciated.

Thank You

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  • Are you sure memcached is running on the server? – Tero Kilkanen Apr 4 '16 at 18:46
  • Hi Tero, yes it is running I have included the output of netstat -tulpn tcp 0 0 192.168.3.106:11211 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1031/memcached – Paul Bedorf Apr 4 '16 at 20:41
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do a:

 ssh -f -N user@56.55.55.56 netstat -putan

should show you something LISTENing in 127.0.0.1:11211 (or 0.0.0.0:11211) check the column "Local Address"

if you see something else (like listening in another interface) there are 2 options:

  1. you change the tunnel to listen to that interface i.e.: ssh -f -N user@56.55.55.56 -L 11211:192.168.3.106:11211
  2. make memcache listen to 127.0.0.1 i.e.: you start the service with memcached -l 127.0.0.1 (or it's corresponding /etc/default/memcached in ubuntu/debian)
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  • Hello, I run that command but it does not return anything. I also run this command on my another server where I do ssh tunnel to Postgresql and it also comes back with nothing. That postgresql ssh tunnel that i have set up works perfectly. – Paul Bedorf Apr 4 '16 at 20:43
  • postgress listens in 0.0.0.0:5432 by default. Memcache doesn't (it chooses an specific address, which I guess in your case is 192.168.3.106) can you paste the output of ssh -f -N user@56.55.55.56 netstat -putan ? – nicocesar Apr 6 '16 at 0:49
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I appreciate your help, I have solved the issue by reinstalling the latest Centos 7 operating system with the latest memcache server, everything works perfectly now. Before my memcache server was running on an older version of Debian 6.0.6/squeeze, not sure if that had anything to do with it, but surely the reinstall of the latest os solved my issue.

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