Re: Troubleshooting aliases.

2007-03-17 Thread Colin Waring
Thanks to anyone who had a think about this one. It appears the cause is a bit simpler than thought. Quite simply, the hosting centre have apparantly allocated the IP addresses to someone else so whilst there is something responding, it isn't actually the right machine. Numpties. :) Regards, Colin.

Re: Troubleshooting aliases.

2007-03-17 Thread Colin Waring
I'm sure I wrote out some more info than that but apparently not. I must be getting confused as I did a description somewhere else, sorry! Basically, .a and .d respond to pings and pass all traffic .b and .c respond to pings but don't appear to pass any other traffic. IPF is compiled but I've com

Troubleshooting aliases.

2007-03-17 Thread Colin Waring
Hi folks, Been running into brick walls since last night on this one. Situation is that our server has 6.1-RELEASE on it with four IP addresses. The section of rc.conf is this: ifconfig_em0="inet a.a.a.a netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet a.a.a.b netmask 255.255.255.255" ifconfig_em