[nzlug] Server B***s-up

[Michael Adams]

"I" can't move nuthin. I can only point in a direction at this stage. Of
course i could walk in tomorrow morning and declare "the Ethernet is
emitting bogons again":
http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bogon.html

Move it to what?

On Mon, 05 May 2008 21:02:15 +1200
Steve Holdoway wrote:

> You'll probably find that the core of the problem is that the M$
> server is in the .local domain. Mickey and his mates do really strange
> things when in this domain. If you can move it - your existing
> localdomain should be ok - then things should improve.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:39:43 +1200
> Michael Adams <linux_mike at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > We run a small C Class network on 192.168.0.X in an educational
> > environment at work (my first attempt). It was handled by an IPCop
> > box just fine. IPCop is at ...0.1, Printer 1 at ...0.25, Printer 2
> > at...0.50. IPCop dishes out other adresses from ...0.60 to ...0.250.
> > Ran sweet.
> > 
> > Now we have a new IBM Server running Windows Server 2008 going in at
> > ...0.8 with thin clients and everything is bogging down on the
> > internet for pre-existing boxes (non-thin clients) and with the
> > IPCop box itself. I don't know much about this stuff. The IPCop box
> > is still dishing out the IP addresses but I can't log into it at
> > https://ipcop.localdomain:445 like i could before. I still can on
> > https://192.168.0.1:445 but it is as intermittent as hell.
> > 
> > This new server has been set up on "newsvr.local" as its
> > hostname.domainname. Are the two domains conflicting or do i look
> > elsewhere for the mix-up?
> > 
> > Ping works fine from a thin client windows command prompt to
> > 192.168.0.1(which is effectively from the new server to IPCop, i
> > think, as opposed to being from the client box itself). Didn't think
> > to ping ipcop.localdomain, neither did i try from a normal box to
> > any other. I left there at six tonight and i am not happy. We've not
> > been able to run a course since Wednesday. No, i didn't do the
> > install. I did have one small consolation, in that the thin clients
> > themselves are HP t5135's running linux.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael
> > 
> > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things
> > shall be well
> > 
> >  - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
> > 
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> 
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> Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>
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-- 
Michael

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well

 - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416