It should be created for you automatically on the network host. you might need to set ip_forward to 1 in sysctl, but it should be working. Request failed seems like an odd error, it may be that you are connecting from the wrong ip somehow so the metadata server can't figure out which metadata to give you. On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the ip table rule that needs to be created to allow cloud utils to connect? > > I get these when starting up. > > wget: can't connect to remote host (169.254.169.254): Connection timed out > cloud-setup: failed 2/30: up 26.44. request failed > > >From what I was told there needs to be a rule for this, but since I’m not really experienced with iptables I was wondering if anyone had an example. > Thanks > Josh > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20110829/8d8049bc/attachment.html>