Re: PPPoE ruined my servers, HELP!

From: Ohmster (bigbigkitty_at_ohmster.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:37:45 GMT

ERACC <junkmail@eracc.com> wrote in
news:pan.2004.02.25.16.24.42.933294@era4.eracc.UUCP:

> If your domain is actually ohmster.com I just loaded the page here
> using Mozilla and your domain name.

Ya know, this is one exception where a reply by email might really have not
been such a bad thing. <g>

Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

I don't do anything commercial with my machine, it is my "linux 101" class, I
cannot afford the money or the time to study linux in school so I do it at
home on my old PIII 800. I really have learned a lot about networking and
linux in general and I am very pleased with the OS. The web server is really
just a small server for my family with .htaccess protection for family
messages and photos. None of this is high volume, I already leaned that an
ADSL connection is not suitable for a real, public website.

I was the very first person in my area to subscribe to the ADSL, they charged
me three hundred freaking dollars for the install and the modem. Gave me a
bridged ethernet connection and all was well. Now that they pulled the plug
on the briged ethernet and stuck me with PPPoE, I am very much less than
satisfied. Losing Bellsouth would not really be such a big loss now.

Anyway, on to the fun linux stuff. Apparently, you are right and the web
server is operational. Checking the access_log shows this to be so. What is
puzzling me is that I cannot access this site with either of the two XP
machines on the LAN, unless I browse to the IP address. Browsing by domain
gives me a "page not found" message but it is not a 404 apache message. Going
to the root of the domain give me "This site under construction and does not
have a default page". This is also not an apache message, but rather an MS
server message. Where in the hell is this message comming from? I am not
running an MS web server on either machine, ping and traceroute both go right
to the actual IP and return pretty quickly.

Neither XP machines have changed configs at all, both have static NAT IPs and
use my ISP's two nameservers for DNS lookups. The actual linux machine can
display the web site by domain name. The XP machines can only display the
site via inet IP address (Or local NAT IP).

What the heck is going on here? The only thing that I can think of is that
roariing penguin changed some kind of file somewhere and now my LAN machines
cannot find the correct IP for my http server, OR that it is being
intercepted somehow by an MS machine and hence I am getting the "under
construction" page.

This is really freaking me out because I cannot understand this, hope that
someone can shed a little light.

Thanks again for the heads up, next time please use direct reply to author
for this kind of reply. ;>) 

-- 
~Ohmster

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