# Cannot access service across namespace

**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-access-service-across-namespace/13355
**Category:** General
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-access-service-across-namespace/13355 "2019-02-17T02:20:15Z")
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### Author: ![walkertong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@walkertong](https://forums.suse.com/u/walkertong)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-access-service-across-namespace/13355/1 "2019-02-17T02:20:15Z")

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Rancher 2.08;  
I created two namespaces dev and test:

1. One nginx deployment and ClusterIP type service nginx-service in dev
2. in test namespace, i cannot access nginx-service by curl nginx-service.dev

if i change nginx-service to NodePort , it works, why?