Exercise - Configure network access has an incorrect commands in

Question

IT has me run the following commands against the previously running VM:

IPADDRESS="$(az vm list-ip-addresses \
  --resource-group learn-1b8b498d-3dff-4e2d-b4bc-f8a67d50d5e9 \
  --name my-vm \
  --query "[].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[*].ipAddress" \
  --output tsv)"

Then run:

curl --connect-timeout 5 http://$IPADDRESS

The exercise states that I should be getting the following error:

curl: (28) Connection timed out after 5001 milliseconds

But I get this error instead:

curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL

Which tells me that possibly there is something wrong with one of the values on the first command that sets the IPADDRESS variable?

Can someone tell me what is wrong?

Answer 1

Hello, @C R !

Where am I seeing this?

• Subject: Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• Learning Path: Azure Fundamentals: Describe Azure architecture and services
• Module: Describe Azure compute and networking services
• Unit: 9 of 14 Exercise - Configure network access

Why am I getting a URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL error?

Usually this is an error due to Task 1, step 1 where you set the IPADDRESS as you noted above which often fails as a result of the VM from unit 3 Exercise - Create an Azure Virtual Machine expiring after an hour. If it's been more than an hour since you completed unit 3, go back and complete that before continuing this exercise. If not, let us know so we can continue to troubleshoot this.

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