I am running Cassandra 2.1.2 in an Ubuntu VM. "cqlsh" or "cqlsh localhost" works fine.
But I can not connect from outside the VM (firewall, etc. disabled). Even when I do "cqlsh 192.168.111.136" in my VM I get connection refused. This is strange because when I check my network config I can see that 192.168.111.136 is my IP: root@ubuntu:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:02:e0:de inet addr:192.168.111.136 Bcast:192.168.111.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe02:e0de/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16042 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:21307125 (21.3 MB) TX bytes:709471 (709.4 KB) 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:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:550 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:550 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:148053 (148.0 KB) TX bytes:148053 (148.0 KB) root@ubuntu:~# cqlsh 192.168.111.136 9042 Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'192.168.111.136': error(111, "Tried connecting to [('192.168.111.136', 9042)]. Last error: Connection refused")}) What to do?