IP Address Control

Sun Sep 8 02:28:01 PDT 2002

Ryan,
As I suggested off list, the problem could well be that IIS  is 
listening to both IP addresses, in my testing I was surprised to see 
that webstar on  MAc cannot apparently be restricted to a single IP 
address either.

here's what I did to test that. In a telnet program I connected to 
66.221.37.205:80 and typed hello. I saw a response that I guess is 
IIS error page

Hello
<HTML>
       <HEAD><TITLE>500 Server Error</TITLE></HEAD>
                                                   <BODY>
                                                         <H1>Server Error</H1>

<H4
>
  The following error occurred:<P>
                                  This request was not recognized. 
Perform a trac
e.
   </H4>
        <HR>
            Please contact the administrator.
                                             </BODY>
                                                    </HTML>

Next I did the same thing on 66.221.37.206:80

hello
<HTML>
       <HEAD><TITLE>500 Server Error</TITLE></HEAD>
                                                   <BODY>
                                                         <H1>Server Error</H1>

<H4
>
  The following error occurred:<P>
                                  This request was not recognized. 
Perform a trac
e.
   </H4>
        <HR>
            Please contact the administrator.
                                             </BODY>
                                                    </HTML>

Same screen. Its not  a Frontier screen.

Then for curiosity I did the same thing on 66.221.37.205:8080

HTTP/1.0 400 Protocol format error
Server: LiveStats Reporting Server
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 0

It sure looks to me like Iis is using both ports. Just because you 
configure it doesn't mean that MS software takes any notice. :-)

>Hi Everyone -
>
>This is a revisit to a problem that I have been having because I 
>couldn't get it resolved.  Any help would be appreciated!
>
>I am trying to get Frontier to listen on a specific IP address 
>(66.221.37.205), but none others on the machine.  I would like to 
>have my other IP Address - 66.221.37.206 - dedicated to IIS so it 
>would serve static pictures and gems.  My problem is that I can't 
>get Frontier to stick to 66.221.37.205.
>
>The rest of the problem is below, but I have also posted with 
>screenshots to http://www.ryanjhale.com/stories/storyReader$24.
>
>When trying to start IIS on 66.221.37.206, it tells me that the 
>"Address [is] in use" which told me another server was working on 
>that IP.  I then shut Frontier down and tried to start IIS again and 
>it started up and ran fine.  That tells me, then, that Frontier is 
>the culprit.
>
>I have set up Frontier according to 
>http://frontier.userland.com/changes/62 (Under "Networking") to only 
>listen on 66.221.37.205 (see screenshot at 
>http://www.ryanjhale.com/stories/storyReader$24).
>
>I have also set IIS to only listen on 66.221.37.206 (see another 
>screenshot at the address above).
>
>Some people had suggested to me earlier to set IIS to a different 
>port such as 8080.  The problem with this is that if a corporate 
>user behind a firewall (like myself) tries to access my site, they 
>won't be able to see anything that is running from that port because 
>the firewall will filter out everything except port 80.
>
>Please help!
>
>Thanks - again - in advance!
>
>Ryan Hale
>636.561.3403
>ryan.hale at levistable.com
>
>http://www.ryanjhale.com
>http://www.levistable.com
>
>
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>
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>

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