Binding consul to a dummy interface and consul members command

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@agarwal-nitesh

Is that it or is it supposed to work without the argument?

Hi @agarwal-nitesh,

The Consul CLI uses 127.0.0.1:8500 as the default HTTP address. As you identified, you can override this using the -http-addr flag or the CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR environment variable. See the following post for more info.

`consul members` fails because it is querying the wrong port, how to tell it to use the right port?

Hi @jerrac, The configuration files are only used when you run Consul as a daemon using consul agent. When the consul command is used in any other context, the configuration files are ignored. You can use the -http-addr flag or CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR environment variable to change address that will be used to communicate with the Consul API. For example: # Specify the HTTP API address using the -http-addr flag $ consul members -http-addr=127.0.0.1:7500 # Specify the HTTP API address using the CON…