From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 05:18:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3116416A4BF for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:18:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf19.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf19.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E3F43F3F for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:18:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from moe (jackson-66-168-145-25.midtn.chartertn.net [66.168.145.25]) h9QDCdGn091577; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:12:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) From: "Charles Howse" To: "'Matthew Seaman'" Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:12:37 -0600 Message-ID: <003b01c39bc2$d451d7c0$04fea8c0@moe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20031026094537.GB71526@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Importance: Normal cc: 'Don Tyson' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Website up, then down, then up, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:18:01 -0000 > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:25:54PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: >=20 > > > Hmmm... It's not the basic "look up the IP number" part as that's > > > working just fine. You don't seem to be using their (dynDNS) web > > > redirection service (ie. howse.homeunix.net resolves to=20 > 66.168.145.25 > > > which whois reports belongs to Charter Communications). > =20 > > Correct, I'm not. > > I can't get 'homeunix.net' as a domain using WebHop. > > Shouldn't need it anyway, things were working perfectly=20 > without it until > > last week. >=20 > Right. That eliminates a bunch of stuff that could go wrong. > =20 > > > I think that dynDNS would seem to have managed to pull off their > > > datacenter move without much noticable fallout. That's pretty > > > impressive... >=20 > > > If Charter are denying any interference with the port 80=20 > traffic at > > > all, then they are almost certainly correct. >=20 > > > I think you've established that your FreeBSD box is=20 > working correctly. >=20 > > There's no possibility that I've hosed anything like=20 > /etc/hosts.allow or > > one of the files that restricts connections? >=20 > Unless you're updating hosts.allow every 5 minutes I don't see how a > mistake in that file could result in the on again, off again behaviour > you've been seeing. The same goes for any of the flat files in /etc > -- or at least, I can't think what you could possibly do to any of > them that would result in the effects you're seeing. Well, that's true, however it's completely dead now. No off and on. Points again to the router, eh? > > > So, I guess, by a process of elimination you might have a=20 > problem with > > > your cable router/modem? Is this a device that has a=20 > HTTP interface > > > that you can configure it with? -- since it seems to be working > > > perfectly well for all of the other ports, there must be=20 > some reason > > > for it to do nasty things specifically to the port 80 stuff. >=20 > > Yes, the router has a web interface for configuration. It=20 > had been set > > to forward requests on port 80 to the webserver on port 80.=20 > That was > > working perfectly for over a year. I've now set it to port=20 > 8080, in and > > out, which is, of course, working. I have also enabled the=20 > DMZ, which, > > AFAIK, places the server outside the firewall, thereby eliminating > > it...? >=20 > Hmmm... At the moment I'd lean towards the theory that you have a > fault in your router. Does power cycling the router make any > difference? Can you get hold of a spare router you could swap in to > test if that makes a difference? I have power cycled the router and the modem, which BTW are separate pieces of hardware. No joy. I can set it back to the defaults, no problem. I'm not doing anything special with it. I *might* be able to borrow another one to test with, but it would be a different brand. That shouldn't make any difference. I have a hub I can install in place of the router. Can't remember right now whether it's 10/100 or just 10. I'll check. =20 > > > It certainly is perplexing. > =20 > > It is, isn't it? >=20 > Yes. I've had similar impossible problems in the past. One time it > turned out to be a broken network cable, and the other time it was > just my inability to fathom the somewhat obscure way a particular > device implemented packet filtering. Once you know what the answer > is, you'll wonder how it took you so long to realise something so > obvious... Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. :-) I'm currently installing Apache2 on larry, the secondary FBSD machine to see if it works from there. That should give me a clue, and won't hurt anything at all. =20