# Service Link to Other Stack does not work

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/service-link-to-other-stack-does-not-work/5165>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/service-link-to-other-stack-does-not-work/5165 "2017-01-11T17:37:31Z")\
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Rancher Version: 1.3.0  
Host OS: Ubuntu 16.04  
Container OS: Ubuntu 14.04

I have my Load Balancers in a stack “LoadBalancers”, and I create a Service link from a container in stack “Web” to this as name “api” - however, the container is not able to access this hostname. It worked fine on 1.14

If I create a service Alias in the same “Web” stack as my container it works fine.

Here is the link section in my docker-compose.yml:

external\_links:

- LoadBalancers/https:api

Is this a bug?