IP Address Control

Sun Sep 8 07:09:50 PDT 2002

Hi David -

Thanks for doing all of that checking!  IIS, though, is actually completely shut down because it CAN'T start on port 80 of either IP.  In the middle of writing this email, I went ahead and started it at 66.221.37.206:81.  Runs fine (Its still there if you want to see it) and you can't get it at 66.221.37.205:81, so I'm fairly certain that IIS isn't the issue here.  Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

Ryan Hale
636.561.3403 
ryan.hale at levistable.com

http://www.ryanjhale.com
http://www.levistable.com

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "David A. Bayly" <dbayly at udena.ch>
Reply-To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
Date:  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:28:01 +0100

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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