[wellylug] Still off line

[John Durham]

On 17/01/2011 8:53 a.m., Tim McNamara wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 January 2011 at 7:43 AM, John Durham wrote:
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>> May I add to the previous message that when accessed in house the server
>> responds as it should (as far as I can tell), but somehow all that and a
>> check of the cable connection is not enough to get it on line.
I was able to log in to it and add updated pages directly using a USB as 
a bucket. That works well enough.
> Are you able to tell us which steps that you used to verify that it was
> working locally? That is, did you open up a web browser on localhost
>
> This seems almost to be a DNS issue. Here are some things to check:
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> - Is your router forwarding packets to the correct local IP address?
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> When you refreshed your server, you may have deleted something that
> asked for a static IP address. Your router may be forwarding packets to
> the right address, but your server has been given another address via DCHP.
>
> - Can your server reach the Internet?
There is little evidence that it can, but local updating is no problem.
The windows machine has full internet access or I would not be sending 
emails, right?
> If not, then the Internet can't reach you..
That may be the case but it is limited to the server only.
> - Is the global DNS system sending requests to your server?
How do I find that out please? Note: The domain this centos system 
serves is registered and pinging the server works.
> It could be the case that DNS is sending things to the wrong place. I
> don't think this is likely- as you've made local changes. However, can
> you ping your router's IP address? (Also, you'll want to log into the
> router's web admin page and enable responses to ping requests)
At this stage, the router is providing effective internet access under 
windows, so I'm a little reluctant to mess with it.

> Tim
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