Mandrake/Apache question

[sirfergy]

Howdy,

I have an old PPro 200 machine hosting a very small website on my dsl line. I have my own domain name and use no-ip+ to update my DNS and IP so I can just hit instead of the ip.

The problem is, I cannot hit the box with a web browser. On a Mac, I can hit it no problem. On a PC, it doesnt work. It says web site found and then sits forever.

My logs on my Linksys DSL router show the connection coming in, and then the server making a response. But then, nothing else happens.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've put my machine in the DMZ and that didnt make any difference. So right now I have port 80 fowarded to the web server.

On my intranet, everything works as it should.

Any help would be appreciated. If you want to try and hit it, the machine is www.seanferguson.com

Thanks!

 

[Chatterjee]

so it's in DMZ right now?

As far as I know, it could be a router setting issue and not an Apache issue.

-S

 

[sirfergy]

If it was a router setting, why could I hit it from a macintosh and not a PC?

 

[Russ]

Go in to setup / advanced / filters, and make sure "Block WAN Request" is not set to "Enabled".

Russ, NCNE

 

[sirfergy]

Why should that be enabled? That only blocks pings. I have the appropriate ports forwarded.

 

[sirfergy]

^^^

 

[Damaged]

Works for me from a Windows machine. I'm guessing that your IP changed and that it was cached on your system.

 

[sirfergy]

You can browse to the machine?

Who is your ISP?

 

[Damaged]

ameritech.net.

Are the MAC and the Windows machine on differnet networks?

 

[sirfergy]

nope, same network. i wonder why u can hit it... 🙁

So did u get the default apache web page?

 

[Damaged]

Yup, default page. That is odd if the machines are on the same network using the same DNS servers.

 

[sirfergy]

Well, it cant be hit from another network either.

I have tried it from 3 different places. The funny thing is that i can use my pacbell dialup and connect to it. 🙁

 

[sirfergy]

Is there any way this could be a DNS issue?

 

[Damaged]

Sure. That's probably what it is. One of the servers for your ISP has the record cached and isn't updating.

 

[sirfergy]

how would i go about fixing that?

 

[Damaged]

You probably don't. I can see your netblock is assigned to PacBell, then subassigned to SBC for PPPoX services...at least according to ARIN. That's who handles your DNS. For the most part. Though you've hooked up with someone like no-ip+ for your domain.

Usually those services set their TTLs pretty low, like 5 minutes or so. No clue why it isn't propogating everywhere though. Sometimes if your IP changes it can take a few days.