trying to sort ip issues

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I’ve recently upgraded to VMPro and seem to be having a lot of issues. A lot is working well, though.

I ran the recheck-config module with the results shown at: http://www.bvserver.ca/prob1.png

Clicking on the module configuration link (shown in blue highlight) leads to:

http://www.bvserver.ca/prob2.png.

Counterintuitive, since I’m logged in as root. Who should I be?

And going to the module config section and pulling down the network settings menu leads to:

http://www.bvserver.ca/prob3.png

I think, looking at this that I ought to change the default virtual server IP address to be the same as the external IP address, is that right?

Anyone?

Dave

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Clicking on the module configuration link (shown in blue highlight) leads to:

Well, goodness, it’s certainly not supposed to do that :slight_smile:

What I would do about this part is file a Support request using the Support link above (just about the permissions error you’re getting, I can help with the other part).

And going to the module config section and pulling down the network settings menu leads to:

Yeah, the network settings you found is the correct place to take care of that.

Before we go changing anything though – are you actually behind a NAT router? Your servers IP is a 192. address, and the external IP is the .142 address?

If so – what you’ll want to do is change the option “Default IP for DNS records” to be “Auto detected external address”.

You can leave the default Virtual Server IP address to what it is now, that part is correct.

-Eric

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Thanks Eric. Yes I am behind a NAT, two routers from the outside world. I’ve made the change and THAT config error has gone away. I see one left, namely that “The feature BIND DNS domain cannot be disabled, as it is used by the following virtual servers : choked.ca”

The /etc/named.conf file shows:

options {
directory “/etc”;
pid-file “/var/run/named/named.pid”;
allow-recursion { localnets; 127.0.0.1; };
};

zone “.” {
type hint;
file “/etc/db.cache”;
};

zone “choked.ca” {
type master;
file “/var/named/choked.ca.hosts”;
};

so can I edit away the last bit safely? I am not aware that there is any use for that bit and I am the site manager for that site, so I can risk a problem.

Dave

ps and yes I’ll post a bug report

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Well, it sounds like the “DNS” feature is enabled withing the choked.ca Virtual Server.

If you don’t need to serve DNS for it, what I’d do is go into Edit Virtual Server, uncheck the DNS feature, and save it.

It should at that point remove that entry for you from the config file.

-Eric