Forum OpenACS Q&A: Can't access AOLserver through eth0 on localhost

1: Can't access AOLserver through eth0 on localhost

Posted by Ola Hansson on 03/08/01 07:22 PM

RH 6.2 (2.2.18) AOLserver 3.2ad12.

I have a LAN at home that consists of a web server (192.168.1.10) and a workstation (192.168.1.11). Access to the internet is made through a masquerading firewall with the LAN interface address 192.168.1.1. Both hosts on the LAN can reach the internet, so that's cool. Before I deal with any necessary port forwarding, I figured I should get things working to the degree that I could connect to AOLserver from any host on the LAN, but I can't! The hostname of the web server box is "hal.infogettable.net" and when AS is configured to listen on 127.0.0.1 port 80 it works as expected, but when it's configured as below, it won't. Not even from the web server host itself.

set hostname			hal.infogettable.net
set address			192.168.1.10

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks like this:

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
ONBOOT=yes

/etc/resolv.conf looks like this:

search hal.infogettable.net infogettable.net
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 212.181.54.2
nameserver 212.181.54.3

Thankful for any help,

2: Response to Can't access AOLserver through eth0 on localhost (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 03/08/01 09:50 PM

I think you need either a DNS server for infogettable.net or entries in HOSTS for hal.infogettable.net pointing to 192.168.1.10 on each machine.

3: Response to Can't access AOLserver through eth0 on localhost (response to 1)

Posted by Ola Hansson on 03/08/01 11:04 PM

My /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1      		 hal.infogettable.net 	 localhost
192.168.1.10	 	 hal.infogettable.net

It seems OK to me.

I might add to the story that I *am* able to ping the hostname and IP of the web server box. I've also got a primary DNS running but still have to bring to life a secondary...

4: Response to Can't access AOLserver through eth0 on localhost (response to 1)

Posted by Ola Hansson on 03/25/01 12:36 AM

I want to thank Walter McGinnis who gave the answer to this one in another thread: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=18532
I just have to set the hostname to the ip-address as below:

set hostname	192.168.1.10
set address	192.168.1.10

Now I can reach my web server internally from any machine on my LAN

Thank you very much Walter!