# What is the correct URL for \`ray status\`?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/what-is-the-correct-url-for-ray-status/8227>\
**Category:** Ray Clusters\
**Created:** [November 11, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/what-is-the-correct-url-for-ray-status/8227 "2022-11-11T01:54:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vedant\_Roy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/vedant_roy/32/3234_2.png) [@Vedant\_Roy](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Vedant_Roy)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/what-is-the-correct-url-for-ray-status/8227/1 "2022-11-11T01:54:36Z")

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I can access my dashboard at a given URL. (I know b/c running `wget <url>` works without issue).  
But running `env RAY_ADDRESS=<url> ray status`, causes the following stacktrace:

```auto
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ray/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ray/_private/gcs_utils.py", line 120, in check_health
    resp = stub.CheckAlive(req, timeout=timeout)
  File "/home/ray/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/grpc/_channel.py", line 946, in __call__
    return _end_unary_response_blocking(state, call, False, None)
  File "/home/ray/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/grpc/_channel.py", line 849, in _end_unary_response_blocking
    raise _InactiveRpcError(state)
grpc._channel._InactiveRpcError: <_InactiveRpcError of RPC that terminated with:
        status = StatusCode.UNAVAILABLE
        details = "DNS resolution failed for <url> C-ares status is not ARES_SUCCESS qtype=A name=<url> is_balancer=0: Domain name not found"
        debug_error_string = "UNKNOWN:DNS resolution failed for http://100.70.220.231:8265: C-ares status is not ARES_SUCCESS qtype=A name=<url> is_balancer=0: Domain name not found {created_time:"2022-11-11T01:53:24.817252623+00:00", grpc_status:14}"
>
Ray cluster is not found at <url>

```

Note that the cluster URL is a tailscale IP, not sure if that makes a difference.

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**Author:** ![architkulkarni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/architkulkarni/32/10_2.png) [@architkulkarni](https://discuss.ray.io/u/architkulkarni)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/what-is-the-correct-url-for-ray-status/8227/2 "2022-11-29T22:14:28Z")

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I believe currently `ray status` can only be run from a Ray cluster node.