Ok..yes..using a EIP worked.  Thanks and will now up my understanding of
NAT

Thanks


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Thompson <and...@hijacked.us>wrote:

> By default AWS machines use NAT, they provide a temporary external IP
> that is NATed through to the internal IP applied to the AWS instance.
> You can also permanantly assign an 'elastic IP address' if you want a
> particular instance to always be reachable on a specific IP.
>
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-instance-addressing.html
>
> When you put that public IP in the riak config file, it makes no sense
> to Riak because that IP isn't applied to any interface it knows about.
> When you put the private IP in, it works, but you can't access it. This
> is probably because AWS is dropping inbound traffic by default:
>
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-network-security.html#default-security-group
>
> This is not a Riak problem, it is an issue with configuring AWS.
>
> Andrew
>
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