Something is blocking HTTP traffic between WSL2 (Ubuntu) and Nginx server on Windows 10. How to fix it?

Question

firewall

The host is assigned IP 172.23.16.1, from under WSL2 it pings fine, but when you try to do `wget 172.23.16.1` or `telnet 172.23.16.1` it hangs pending. I don’t understand whether the firewall is cutting the connection somewhere, or whether Nginx itself does not want to accept a connection that is not from a local address. The request does not appear in the nginx log. How to figure it out?

Answer 1

I solved the problem by disabling the rule for blocking incoming connections to nginx in Windows Firewall.

Answer 2

Nginx on Windows... and you know a lot...)