WSL, Django Server started on windows, Can't access it on ubuntu WSL (using curl)

[arhantbararia]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.4170]

WSL Version

1.2.5.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.90.1

Distro Version

Ubuntu 20.04

Other Software

Django==4.2.3
Python 3.8.0

Repro Steps

Start a boiler plate django server on windows machine using:

• python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

and then on WSL access it using:

• curl -I http://127.0.0.1:8000

Expected Behavior

I would have expected this reponse

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:03:15 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.10.12
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Vary: Cookie
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Referrer-Policy: same-origin
Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin

Actual Behavior

curl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8000 after 1 ms: Connection refused

Diagnostic Logs

I think server ran fine:

Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
Django version 4.2.3, using settings 'project.settings'
Starting development server at http://0.0.0.0:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.

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[arhantbararia]

Add a new inbound rules which allows 8000 port