[Mailman-Users] My issue with using web server on the server to get to mailman

[Dragon]

Mike Brown wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:27:27PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Mike Brown writes:
> >
> >  > I then changed the hosts file to look like:
> >  >
> >  >    192.168.1.1 mrvideo vidiot.com www.vidiot.com loghost
> >
> > Are you sure 192.168.1.1 isn't the DSL box?  192.168.1.1 is grabbed
> > for themselves by many DSL boxes.  But whatever.
>
>Yes.  The first DSL box I got was one of those passive types, where 
>the computer
>is set to the actual IP.  The Linux server used two ports at that time and the
>internal LAN had the server at 192.168.1.1.  The Linux server did the
>firewalling and NAT processing.  When the upgraded DSL connection was done,
>it used new equipment and a new modem.  So I assigned 192.168.1.254 to the
>DSL NAT box and that is used as the gateway address by all of the LAN
>computers.
>
> > Anyway, changing that to 127.0.0.1 should do what you want; the DSL
> > box can't get its hands on that since it never leaves the local host
> > at all.
>
>Good idea, didn't think of doing it there.  So now the hosts file looks like:
>
>         127.0.0.1       localhost www.vdiot.com vidiot.com
>
>Doing a ping got the right results:
>
>         mrvideo.ZROOT <64> ping -s vidiot.com
>         PING vidiot.com: 56 data bytes
>         64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0. time=0.0620 ms
>
>That is a good sign.
>
>All went to pieces after that.  Putting vidiot.com as the URL got the damn
>DSL modem's web page again.  That is just not right.  As you say, that should
>be impossible.
>
>Back to the drawing board to figure out what is going on with those packets.
>
>BTW, the packets are really going to the DSL modem, because when I disconnect
>the LAN cable to the bax, the browser freezes until I reconnect it, and the
>pages gets loaded.
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This is seriously off-topic for this list but here goes anyway...


Do you have a host.conf file on your system? (You should in the /etc directory)

If so, does it have something like this in it?

order bind hosts


If so, reverse the order of lookup to:

order hosts bind


That will ensure that the IP address resolution is driven by what is 
in the hosts file before it goes out to any DNS server.

More info:
http://tldp.org/LDP/nag/node82.html



Dragon

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