rabbitMQ.Client in .NET System.IO.IOException: connection.start was never received, likely due to a network timeout

Question

I am writing amqp 1.0 client (using rabbitMQ.Client in .NET) for a broker who provided me the following information:

• amqps://brokerRemoteHostName:5671
• certificate_openssl.p12
• password for certificate as a string "mypassword"
• queue name

I developed the following code in Visual Studio which is supposed to work (based on long searches on the web):

var cf = new ConnectionFactory();             
cf.Uri = new Uri("amqps://brokerRemoteHostName:5671");
cf.Ssl.Enabled = true;
cf.Ssl.ServerName = "brokerRemoteHostName";
cf.Ssl.CertPath = @"C:\Users\mahmoud\Documents\certificate_openssl.p12";
cf.Ssl.CertPassphrase = "myPassword";
var connection = cf.CreateConnection();

However, the output shows an exception:

RabbitMQ.Client.Exceptions.BrokerUnreachableException:
None of the specified endpoints were reachable ---> System.IO.IOException:
connection.start was never received

likely due to a network timeout) as seen in the image.

Where line 50 corresponds to the line where we create the connection.

I appreciate your kind assistance on the error above.

Answer 1

If you're connecting to a docker container, you need to add the 5672 port in addition to 15672 port when creating the container. For those using ssl, the port would be 5671 instead of 5672.

Example: docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name rabbitmq --net customnet -p customport:15672 -p 5672:5672 rabbitmq:3-management.

You would connect from client by calling this: ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory() { HostName = "localhost" };.

Feel free to pass in username and password if those were changed.