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Date:  Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:49:21 +0300
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:10217] Re: Unable to access virt sites from outside the local network. {Scanned}
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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> > I had a similar problem, and it turned out to be a DNS issue.
> > 
> > It appears that BQ checks for an authoritative DNS resolver for a 
> > requested domain, and redirects the viewer to the IP 
> provided by the 
> > authoritative resolver.
> > 
> > So if www.somedomain.com exists somewhere else and you are 
> moving it 
> > to a BQ server, you need to create www2.somedomain.com on the BQ 
> > server as an alias, and the DNS server pointing to the BQ server.
> 
> Domain/site didn't exist until I started it on here.  DNS is 
> hosted by EasyDNS so I am not using DNS on the server 
> locally, and I know DNS is working properly because I can run 
> a dig on an external Linux box and it returns the correct IP address.
> 
> From another email...
> 
> >What happens when you do
> ># service httpd restart
> 
> 
> The service stops and restarts without error.  Same thing if 
> I do 'service network restart'.
> 
> 
> The fact that I can connect to the systems from other PCs on 
> the same subnet is most perplexing... If I were not able to 
> connect at all, I would be better suited to troubleshoot 
> this.  The fact that PCs locally can hit the sites by FQDN, 
> or IP, and sites external can't, is very frustrating.  These 
> are good suggestions, but ones I have already tried.  What is 
> also troubling, is that the site was working fine, and then 
> one day it wasn't.
> Unfortunately, considerable time had passed between those 
> dates so I don't know when it really stopped working as I was 
> doing my stuff on a local system.


It seems to be rather packet mangling issue, than routing, ot maybe both are
involved.

I would check with the provider for his firewall.

Best,

--
Arthur Sherman