RE: IP Aliasing under Red Hat 5.0 (Weird problem)

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Hill.Robertson@stn.siemens.com said on 8/3/98 6:31 PM

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>Jon, I'm not sure which mailing list you saw this on, but ISP-tech has
>been the only one attempting to help me out so far. Let me know and
>I'll include that list in the cc: addresses.
>
>I have decided to grant jon's request and post all the real information
>we are dealing with here. I'll also try and post a summary of what I
>have tried so far.
>
>We have 4 class C addresses assigned to Michiana.net,
>208.226.220.0-223.0. We have these variably subnetted. The class C we
>are dealing with is 208.226.220.0, here is how it is subnetted out:
>
>208.226.220.0/30 (Unusable, all 0's and 1's)
>208.226.220.4/30
>208.226.220.8/29
>208.226.220.16/29
>208.226.220.24/30
>208.226.220.28/30
>208.226.220.32/27
>208.226.220.64/26
>208.226.220.128/26 (** This is the subnet we are working with in this
>issue **)
>208.226.220.192/27
>208.226.220.224/27
>208.226.220.252/30 (Unusable, all 0's and 1's)
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>From anywhere I can ping 208.226.220.135 (255.255.255.192) but I can't
>connect to port 80 from anywhere (including the server it's aliased on).
>One potentially important note here. If I ping one of the other aliased
>IP's from the server itself it answers with the IP:
>
>isp# ping 208.226.220.129
>PING 208.226.220.129 (208.226.220.129): 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from 208.226.220.129: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.4 ms
>64 bytes from 208.226.220.129: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.2 ms
>64 bytes from 208.226.220.129: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=116.6 ms
>
>--- 208.226.220.129 ping statistics ---
>3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
>round-trip min/avg/max = 2.2/40.4/116.6 ms
>
>However, if I ping the one that doesn't work for port 80 I get the
>localhost IP number back.
>isp# ping 208.226.220.135
>PING 208.226.220.135 (208.226.220.135): 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.8 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.5 ms
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>--- 208.226.220.135 ping statistics ---
>3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
>round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.6/0.8 ms
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>If I ping from any other host it responds with 208.226.220.135 however.
>Go figure.
>
>Things I have tried/checked:
>- routed is not running. I do not run rip.
>- There are no stray routes on the network. (i.e. there are no subnets
>inside of the 208.226.220.128/26 network)
>- I am getting no errors or messages of any kind in the webserver logs.
>- I have rebooted and restarted the webserver (apache) numerous times.
>- ifconfig reports nothing strange.
>- traceroute reports nothing out of the ordinary.
>- the httpd.conf file is correct (i.e. the virtual-server definitions)
>- The only host numbers that exhibit this problem are:
>
>135:10000111
>136:10001000
>143:10001111
>144:10010000
>151:10010111
>152:10011000
>159:10011111
>160:10100000
>167:10100111
>168:10101000
>175:10101111
>176:10110000
>183:10110111
>184:10111000
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>None of these will work.
>- All the rest of the numbers in that network are aliased already and
>work fine. I have also now routed 208.226.222.128/26 to that same host
>and begun aliasing numbers from it for virtual hosting. This is working
>fine (so it isn't simply having too many aliases or anything) except for
>those same numbers in that network.
>- Nothing strange in my syslog.
>- loopback addresses are properly set with the appropriate netmasks.
>- I have also pounded on my desk, banged my head on a wall and paced
>till my co-workers were ready to cement me to my chair, all to no avail.
>
>Does this help? Is there more information that you need? Please let me
>know and I will provide it. (With certain reasonable limitations of
>course. ;-)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:57 PM
>To: Mark Bainter
>Cc: 'isp-unix@isp-tech.com'; 'isp-tech@isp-tech.com';
>'linuxisp@friendly.jeffnet.org'
>Subject: Re: IP Aliasing under Red Hat 5.0 (Weird problem)
>
>
>On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mark Bainter wrote:
>
>TCP connections to port 80 from anywhere don't work, but you can ping
>them
>from anywhere?...or just from the server?
>
>> The problem follows along all of those ip numbers. Anybody got any
>> answers for me?
>
>Repost the question cleaned up a bit and with the real IP's and people
>can
>look into it. With made up addresses, all they can do is speculate.
>
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