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I'm getting a "no route to host" error when I'm connecting a remote server to my Redis instance on another server.

Redis is definitely running and listening on port 6379. I can connect to it locally.

The server with Redis has this configured for iptables -S

-P INPUT ACCEPT

-P FORWARD ACCEPT

-P OUTPUT ACCEPT

-N FORWARD_IN_ZONES

-N FORWARD_IN_ZONES_SOURCE

-N FORWARD_OUT_ZONES

-N FORWARD_OUT_ZONES_SOURCE

-N FORWARD_direct

-N FWDI_public

-N FWDI_public_allow

-N FWDI_public_deny

-N FWDI_public_log

-N FWDO_public

-N FWDO_public_allow

-N FWDO_public_deny

-N FWDO_public_log

-N INPUT_ZONES

-N INPUT_ZONES_SOURCE

-N INPUT_direct

-N IN_public

-N IN_public_allow

-N IN_public_deny

-N IN_public_log

-N OUTPUT_direct

-A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -j INPUT_direct

-A INPUT -j INPUT_ZONES_SOURCE

-A INPUT -j INPUT_ZONES

-A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j DROP

-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

-A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

-A FORWARD -i lo -j ACCEPT

-A FORWARD -j FORWARD_direct

-A FORWARD -j FORWARD_IN_ZONES_SOURCE

-A FORWARD -j FORWARD_IN_ZONES

-A FORWARD -j FORWARD_OUT_ZONES_SOURCE

-A FORWARD -j FORWARD_OUT_ZONES

-A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j DROP

-A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

-A OUTPUT -j OUTPUT_direct

-A FORWARD_IN_ZONES -g FWDI_public

-A FORWARD_OUT_ZONES -g FWDO_public

-A FWDI_public -j FWDI_public_log

-A FWDI_public -j FWDI_public_deny

-A FWDI_public -j FWDI_public_allow

-A FWDI_public -p icmp -j ACCEPT

-A FWDO_public -j FWDO_public_log

-A FWDO_public -j FWDO_public_deny

-A FWDO_public -j FWDO_public_allow

-A INPUT_ZONES -g IN_public

-A IN_public -j IN_public_log

-A IN_public -j IN_public_deny

-A IN_public -j IN_public_allow

-A IN_public -p icmp -j ACCEPT

-A IN_public_allow -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT

netstat -rn prints out:

0.0.0.0         178.xxx.xxx.1   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

10.10.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0

10.136.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth1

172.17.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 docker0

172.18.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 br-e071bb9e15A

178.xxx.xxx.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.240.0   U         0 0          0 eth0

Is there anything misconfigured here, and how can I fix it so that remote servers can connect to port 6379?

From the chain names, your configuration is using firewalld which uses iptables as backend and generates iptables rules from its own configuration. Redhat provides a lot of documentation for its usage. For your case, providing access should be done with:

firewall-cmd --add-port=6379/tcp

This will probably be reflected like this in the iptables rules:

# iptables -S -t filter | grep -w 6379

-A IN_public_allow -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6379 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT

This will grant temporarily access to redis running on the host. If you think you made a mistake, you can revert the configuration with:

firewall-cmd --reload

Once fine with the results, you can run again the same comment with the additonal option --permanent to write the configuration instead of altering the rules, like this for a permanent setting:

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=6379/tcp

For later, you always need two commands to alter it permanently: once for the configuration, once for the running firewall (a firewall-cmd --reload after a firewall-cmd --permanent ... is good enough).