Topic: odd situation with local network/remote admin settings

[eriep]

I've got a bit of a problem here,
sme 6.0 box, originally set with the ip address of
my server to allow remote administration. Removed the ip address somewhere along the line, and all of a sudden, SME won't even connect to my website at that same address, and I can't connect to the website hoseted by the SME box. Traceroute shows the request being dropped at the SME box when trying outbound, packets being dropped by isp's router inbound. Anybody have any ideas to un break this little problem?


erie

[mophilly]

It is hard to say what happened, based only on your note. I am not an expert but it sounds like an invalid IP address on the server, or an IP conflict on the net.

You may be able to resolve the issue by reviewing the configuration and network parameters for your network, then use the Configure this Server function on the Admin Console to rebuild the basic config data on the server.

hth

[epatsellis]

a few more specifics,
both domains are static ip's, and are registered domains,
shelbyvilledesign.com at 216.176.80.22 (sme 5.6 box)
fourstaraviation.com at 216.176.73.64   (sme 6.0 box)


tracert from shelbyvilledesign.com to fourstaraviation.com yields:

Tracing route to www.fourstaraviation.com [216.176.73.64]over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.254

2    28 ms    28 ms    28 ms  216.176.80.254 (isp's g/w)

3     *        *        *     Request timed out.

so the sme 6.0 box at 216.176.73.64 is dropping packets into oblivion. Is there a ip 'blacklist'?
somewhere along the way the router part of the sme box has been told to ignore 216.176.80.22. Not being a linux weenie, what pkg is used for ip routing? what file are the routing tables in?

erie

[mophilly]

You have the gateways set to xxx.xxx.xxx.254. I use xxx.xxx.xxx.1 for the routers, etc., in each segment.

There are IP blacklists, but you have to add the rpm to SME to implement that feature.

I don't have another suggestion at the moment. Are you sure it the fourstaravaition box that is dropping the ball?

Check the documentation page and the PDF. The routing and so on, is covered pretty well.

[eriep]

found it, manually deleted the route from the routing table. now, how do I make sure it's permanent?

erie