[clug] web server not serving pages to the internet (resolved - sort of)

[Boris Rousak]

Okies,

The mail and web server are in fact 1 box, but thanx
for the suggestion all the same.

The problem turned out to be as follows. DynDNS has a
protocol where by any user who "updates" their details
too often gets booted off the server. While I use to
use ddclient i had no probs, but the stupid netgear
box, does not conform to the standard and updates way
too often (traffic snoop suggests at least once a week
plus after any firmware update). So after dyndns
booted me, its no wonder the web part of it woudn't
work. I suspect the reason mail kept going is because
I only get email from the same set of domains (mostly)
- so they must have cached my address (can people
confirm similar behaviour). To boot, the
port-forwarding on the device forwarded port 80 TCP
packets randomly - as in i could watch myself send
first SYN and get reply  but then nothing gets through
- not sure if this is a failure on the part of the
firmware, but the problem did fix itself after an
upgrade. 

So the final note seems to be that basic netgear OS or
whatever is useless. I suppose I'll try and install
Linux onto it and stick to IP tables :)

Cheer
Boris

--- Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:

> On 12 Aug 2005, at 15:20, Boris Rousak wrote:
> 
> > One last thing, when i check the apache access.log
> > file I see foreign addresses trying to execute
> attacks
> > against me (mostly for IIS so they obviously can't
> > tell what I am) - but this leads me to think that
> port
> > forwarding is working fine and something else is
> at
> > hand.
> 
> If your email and web services are on different
> machines, you  
> probably need to update the web server with a
> default route.
> 
> Check the output of "route" or "netstat -r" (or even
> "ip route list")  
> on both machines. Check that the default route goes
> to the same place.
> 
> Alex Satrapa             M: +61 4 0770 5332
> grail at goldweb.com.au     W:
> http://homepage.mac.com/alexsatrapa
> 
> 
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