John Schuster
December 3rd, 2009, 04:23 PM
Hello everyone,
I'm running Ubuntu release 9.10 as I upgraded in early November.
I'm also running an HTTP server, an FTP server, and an SMTP server. No volume mind you, but they all worked until about last Saturday. I can't be sure it wasn't even Thursday or Friday as I hosted a Thanksgiving Dinner and had my brother visiting.
At first I thought it was just Apache2 that was broken, but later found the FTP and mail issues. It turns out I could hit localhost and pull up my homepage. I cannot see this page from other machines.
I can send mail out but cannot send mail in.
I can get the FTP server to say "Connected to.." my site, but then it times out saying "Connection closed by remote host."
I believe there is some common thread to all this - it is as if all the servers have been in some manner disconnected or made unable to hear the outside world.
I am not a network engineer but it seems like there is a single root cause to my woes.
Any thoughts appreciated!
Thanks,
John Schuster
PS - I'm also new to using the Ubuntuforums so please forgive any posting errors.
I'm running Ubuntu release 9.10 as I upgraded in early November.
I'm also running an HTTP server, an FTP server, and an SMTP server. No volume mind you, but they all worked until about last Saturday. I can't be sure it wasn't even Thursday or Friday as I hosted a Thanksgiving Dinner and had my brother visiting.
At first I thought it was just Apache2 that was broken, but later found the FTP and mail issues. It turns out I could hit localhost and pull up my homepage. I cannot see this page from other machines.
I can send mail out but cannot send mail in.
I can get the FTP server to say "Connected to.." my site, but then it times out saying "Connection closed by remote host."
I believe there is some common thread to all this - it is as if all the servers have been in some manner disconnected or made unable to hear the outside world.
I am not a network engineer but it seems like there is a single root cause to my woes.
Any thoughts appreciated!
Thanks,
John Schuster
PS - I'm also new to using the Ubuntuforums so please forgive any posting errors.