Thanks to the help of Jeff I was able to narrow down the scope of troubleshooting.
I was able to open up http://ip_of_node1:8091/pools and http://ip_of_node1:8091, which made things a little more confusing.
When I changed the following code:
to
I was able to connect and retrieve the record.
So in case anyone else has this issue, use the hostname of the nodes in the cluster, not the ip address.
Cheers