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NetWare 6 box can't ping internal addresses
When we ping any internal address from our NetWare 6 box, which is running DNS, the ping goes out to our website. We can do an nslookup of all of the hosts from the server no problem. The server can be pinged from anywhere internally. Where would it be pulling the setting that is sending EVERY ping from this server and this server only to an outside address?
Do you have two NICs, one public, one private, or are you multihoming private and public IP on the same NIC, or is it one NIC with only a private IP, or one NIC with only a public IP?
If you've got multiple interfaces, physical or not, the first one bound is likely to be the one that the PING is going out on. If that's the case, you also need to look at how the rest of your networking configuration is set up - routing, filters, etc.
If you've got multiple interfaces, physical or not, the first one bound is likely to be the one that the PING is going out on. If that's the case, you also need to look at how the rest of your networking configuration is set up - routing, filters, etc.
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It only had 1 IP address, there was however a public IP NATed to it. We were able to get it working by rebooting the server without DNS turned on, then starting DNS manually.. not quite sure what caused it, and a plain reboot didn't make it go away..
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So, what was it? I threw out so many possibilities there...
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Lets call the problematic server PROBLEM and our primary NetWare server NETWARE
From PROBLEM if you do nslookup NETWARE, it returns the correct address
From PROBLEM if you do ping NETWARE, it goes to a different address
The only DNS entry pointing to our website address is the WWW entry, but I don't see why that would come into play here...