Connectivity issue from US West region to MongoDB Atlas despite open IP whitelist

drizzt
PRO

4 months ago

Hi,

I’m currently deploying a Node.js backend on Railway and I’m experiencing an issue when hosting it in the US West (California) region.

• My MongoDB Atlas cluster is hosted in europe-west1 (Belgium).

• On Netherlands (EU) region, everything works fine—even with dynamic outbound IPs and 0.0.0.0/0 in the Atlas whitelist.

• However, when deploying in US West, I get the following error from Mongoose: "MongooseServerSelectionError: Could not connect to any servers in your MongoDB Atlas cluster."

Even with 0.0.0.0/0 fully whitelisted, Atlas fails to connect from Railway US West, which suggests the problem may be at the network/proxy level on your side (routing, NAT, or firewall?).

I wanted to use US West primarily because it is currently the only region offering a static outbound IP, which I need for MongoDB Atlas IP whitelisting.

Can you confirm:

1. If outbound traffic from US West is routed differently than EU?

2. Whether the static IP provided in US West might be blocked or misrouted from Atlas’s Europe-based clusters?

3. If there’s a known workaround to solve this?

Thanks for your help :)

Solved

2 Replies

3 months ago

Hello,

Can you try to put your service in EU-West non-Metal, Metal regions don't support Static IPs, not even US-West.

(I don't know why it's currently working in US West Metal, it shouldn't work)

Best,
Brody


Status changed to Awaiting User Response railway[bot] 4 months ago


brody

Hello,Can you try to put your service in EU-West non-Metal, Metal regions don't support Static IPs, not even US-West.(I don't know why it's currently working in US West Metal, it shouldn't work)Best,Brody

drizzt
PRO

3 months ago

You're right: it works on EU-West non-metals! So it fits my needs perfectly.

Thank you very much :)


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response railway[bot] 3 months ago


Status changed to Solved drizzt 3 months ago


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