sakai135/wsl-vpnkit

Exposing a port from in WSL2 to back Windows

andyneff opened this issue · 4 comments

andyneff commented

Unless I'm missing something, is there a clever workaround to expose a port on WSL2 while WSL-VPNkit is active?

Example

In WSL2:

python3 -m http.server

In windows:

curl http://???/

Note: IPv6 works, but that's not using WSL-vpnkit, that's just a side that on my VPN, IPv6 apparently still works even without WSL-vpnkit

sakai135 commented

Does localhost not work?

andyneff commented

Weird, today when I try localhost, it works. confused Oh well.

michaelakin commented

localhost did not work for me. Any other ideas?

andyneff commented

@michaelakin Running this in WSL2:

python3 -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8001

Outputs:

$ python3 -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8001
Serving HTTP on 127.0.0.1 port 8001 (http://127.0.0.1:8001/) ...
127.0.0.1 - - [13/Jul/2022 08:25:32] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -

When I run this on the windows host from command prompt:

curl http://localhost:8001

I'm on VPN just now when I tested it.

A common issue would be your firewall/antivirus software is blocking it.