Artillery isnt able to connect to server errors.ECONNREFUSED

[vskk022]

I am trying to set up Artillery load test using:

config:
  target: "http://localhost:3002"
  phases:
    - duration: 1
      arrivalRate: 1
scenarios:
  - flow:
      - post:
          url: "/register"
          json:
            username: "world"
            password: "securepassword"
            email: "user@domain.com"

but I am getting

errors.ECONNREFUSED: ........................................................... 1
http.request_rate: ............................................................. 1/sec
http.requests: ................................................................. 1
vusers.created: ................................................................ 1
vusers.created_by_name.0: ...................................................... 1
vusers.failed: ................................................................. 1

I know that the server is reachable because when I call http://localhost:3002/register from postman, it returns the right response. Response body sent from Postman is:

{
  "username": "iasd5as524",
  "password": "JS9812!wj",
  "email": "aosdj@aasojsd1d.com"
}

My Node server is running inside Virtualbox with port forwarding enabled.

[vskk022]

Changing localhost to 127.0.0.1 worked.

[hassy]

For anyone who might come across this in the future, this is most likely caused by this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72648487/node-js-16-17-changed-resolution-of-localhost