Network Help

[Jeffrey P. Toth]

Thanks for you time.

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

>[ it would be nice if you would reply in the same thread and wrap to 72
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>On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:17:43 +0930
>"Jeffrey P. Toth" <jtoth at attech.net.au> wrote:
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>>Thanks Ion-Mihai,
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>>Well that is the problem. I cannot find any problems other than when I
>>try to open an http: on the box, or on one of the other computers on
>>the network, it fails and has the network error:
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>>Making HTTP connection to www.any-site-on-the-box.com
>>Sending HTTP request
>>HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
>>Alert! Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
>>Can't Access 'http://www.any-site-on-the-box.com'
>>Alert! Unable to access document.
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>fetch -vvv http://www.any-site-on-the-box.com/ 
>output please
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>>I can ping all machines and do a traceroute without problem. 
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>Good.
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>>The server is online and working I just cannot seem to figure out why
>>I cannot use http on the box and suspect that is the same reason the
>>other computers on the network cannot access any of the sites on the
>>FreeBSD machine without causing a freeze up.
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>So you cannot access any web page *from* that box either on that box and
>away ? Please be clear. And when you try to access a page _on_ the box
>it freezes ? Maybe you have a firewall in between somewhere somehow ? If
>you're machine is freezing the you have to dig *this* problem. Did you
>played with sysctl or kernel settings ? Does ftp from or to the box work
>? How much RAM do you have ? Did you disable swap ? Do the logs say
>anything ?
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I cannot acces any page on the FreeBSD box from the box itself or from 
any computer on the newtowrk. I can access all other websites outside of 
the network.

After I attempt to access a page on the  FreeBSD box from the box or one 
of the other computers on the netowork, at timeout the router freezes 
and goes offline. A power reboot fixes till the next time I try to 
access via http or ftp.

If I connect up my XP computer through my dial up account removing it 
from the router, then I am on different network and  I have no problem 
accessing any of the sites or ftp'ing into the box.

I have not done anything with sysctl or kernel settings

FTP works from outside the box but not from within the network.

I have 256 Megs opf RAM

Disable Swap?

Looking in the logs httpd-error.log , httpd-access.log, debug.log, ftpd, 
dmesg.today, security, and messages I find nothing about any errors 
relating to the problem. In fact I don't even get a log where it tried 
to access the box in httpd-access.log

Is this what you mean by not putting the text ontop and far as I can 
tell the setting says the message is wrapped 72 characters. did it work 
this time?

Thanks for all,

Jeff




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>>Do I need to add all the websites to the hosts file? 
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>Only if you what to access the by name locally and they are Name Based
>on apache in which case you have to add them to the hosts of all your
>computers or setup a dns server.
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>>Or the static IP of the box, xxx.xxx.xxx.150?
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>No. 
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>>Or maybe add the IP of the router?
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>No.
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>>The host file contains these items as setup:
>>127.0.0.1	localhost	localhost.name-of box.com
>>203.122.142.24 	name-of-box.com.
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>>Replace name-of-box with the actual name of the box.
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>Seems OK.
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