how to connect to bolt with cypher-shell not on localhost

Question

Really want to connect to bolt from an spark slave also but figured if I can get it working with cypher-shell the rest will fall into place. So I can do this:

cypher-shell -a localhost

Connects fine

if I do this on the box which is the actual ip:

cypher-shell -a 172.20.0.71:7687

Get a connection refused, I thought all I had to do was in the conf do:

dbms.connector.bolt.address=0.0.0.0:7687

That didn't seem to work is there something else I am missing? (Or at least the above didn't seem to work I did restart my neo4j instance so it should of picked up the changes to conf). Connecting just with defaults on cypher-shell does give this still though:

Connected to Neo4j 3.3.0 at bolt://localhost:7687 as user neo4j.
Type :help for a list of available commands or :exit to exit the shell.
Note that Cypher queries must end with a semicolon.

So maybe it didn't fully restart and pick up the changes to the neo4j.conf ? Or more likely I am missing something else to get this to work as I think it should. Where I can connect from another ip or locally to bolt via the actual ip address?

Answer 1

You need to uncomment this in your neo4j.conf :

dbms.connectors.default_listen_address=0.0.0.0

Restart the server, and then with cypher-shell :

cypher-shell -a bolt://172.20.0.71:7687