Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:58:16 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: Colin Waring <freebsd@southportcomputers.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubleshooting aliases. Message-ID: <20070317145816.GA27192@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <55580.84.92.207.22.1174140633.squirrel@mail.southportcomputers.co.uk> References: <55580.84.92.207.22.1174140633.squirrel@mail.southportcomputers.co.uk>
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Somewhere around Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 14:10 , the world stopped and listened as Colin Waring graced us with this profound tidbit of wisdom that would fulfill the enjoyment of future generations: > 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_em0_alias1="inet a.a.a.c netmask 255.255.255.255" > ifconfig_em0_alias2="inet a.a.a.d netmask 255.255.255.255" > For some reason, with no updates or changes both a.a.a.b and > a.a.a.c have stopped working properly. a.a.a.a works fine, as > does a.a.a.d. > > Unfortunately, the nameservers for the domains hosted on the > server use a.a.a.b and a.a.a.c! > So basically I can't figure out what's up as .d works fine..anyone able to > help me with some suggestions of where to look for fixing .b and .c? You showed up your rc.conf. What might be more helpful is the output of 'ifconfig'. Perhaps the aliases have been deleted. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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