# Connecting Aerospike over SSH Tunnel **URL:** \ **Category:** Client Libraries\ **Created:** [March 7, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/connecting-aerospike-over-ssh-tunnel/10874 "2024-03-07T08:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![priyank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/priyank/32/2173_2.png) [@priyank](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/priyank)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/connecting-aerospike-over-ssh-tunnel/10874/1 "2024-03-07T08:01:55Z")
Aerospike server is running on a port 3000. The server is not directly accessible from my machine. But it is accessible via a machine that I can access over SSH. So I created a SSH tunnel as given below and then configure the driver to connect to localhost:3000 ssh -L 3000:44.55.66.77:3000 [user@33.44.55.66](mailto:user@33.44.55.66) 44.55.66.77 = Aerspike Server IP 33.44.55.66 = IP of the server from which Aerospike is accessible. We use SSH tunneling all the time with different server like Oracle, Nginx etc. so I am sure about correctness of the SSH command. But something is failing during the handshake between the client and server. I suspect Aerospike server is giving the client, IPs of all cluster nodes and then the client tries to connect directly to those IPs which is failing. This happens to be a single node cluster BTW. Is there a solution for this? ---
**Author:** ![meher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/meher/32/1644_2.png) [@meher](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/meher)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/connecting-aerospike-over-ssh-tunnel/10874/2 "2024-03-13T21:25:32Z")
I am not an expert on SSH Tunnel but you can instruct the server to advertise a different address from its own using the [access-address](https://aerospike.com/docs/server/reference/configuration?search=access-address&context=all&version=all#network__access-address) configuration. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/system/32/2274_2.png) [@system](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/connecting-aerospike-over-ssh-tunnel/10874/3 "2025-03-13T21:25:51Z")
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