[ale] Difficult apache question :-)

[James P. Kinney III]

For the last several days there have been network connection gremlins
running around in Mindspring/Earthlink space. I was unable to connect
from my EL-provided connection to another EL-connection , BUT I could
could connect to it from a location outside of Earthlink space.

Traceroutes would die off mysteriously from my box to the remote box. If
I ssh'ed into the remote box by way of an outside box (at GSU), I could
login OK, But a traceroute from the remote machine to my box would die
at the first upstream router address.

Over two hours of phone support and a dozen emails back and forth to
tech support and they would only claim it "is not a problem" since their
traceroute worked OK, or "the network safeguards block traceroutes and
pings for security reasons". When I asked about blocking port 80 access
I was met with silence. 

I can now connect to the remote machine. It is now on a 66.32.x.x
address. It was on a 66.149.x.x address. Since you are having the same
apparent problem as I was, I strongly suspect a badly mis-configured
router is the culprit. 

I suspect they are trying to block CodeRed but are doing a feeble job at
the moment.

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 17:08, cochrane at mindspring.com wrote:
> I've been having fun with an Apache webserver running off of my home DSL
> connection through Mindspring.  From some outside sites, I can connect to the
> webserver with no problems, some others seem to connect but never return any
> data (but an incorrect URL gets a 404 message).  The logs aren't showing me
> anything obvious, and I've even compiled the latest and greatest version of
> Apache to try and fix this problem.  Any ideas?  (if you want to try it, point
> your browser at 66.149.8.222, all the NT boxes are trying to pound it with
> Code Red anyway ;-) ).
> 
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