Newbie IP question !

[Igmar Palsenberg]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Daniel Pope wrote:

> Last  week  when I  tried to find why my DNS ( I have a dedicated server)  worked locally and not remotely I found that 
> my ISP gave me only one IP address instead of 5 as promised ( no secondary IP at all).
> I asked him  for my secondary IP addresses and he announced me that he gave me 4 others:
> My primary (good address) is 64.232.5.110 and the 4 new addresses the provider assigned  to me are from 106-109.
> The simplest way to test (ping is disallowd by my provider) was to check that if my
> http server works same for the new 4 IP addresses . So I checked to see if the http://64.232.5.106  http://64.232.5.107 http://64.232.5.108 http://64.232.5.109
> work as the primary one http://64.232.5.110.
> None of them worked !?!  As I know from the theory I don't have to setup anything in order to make them work. This has to be done by my ISP provider.
> Please, tell me if I'm wrong or should I ask my provider to fix this  situation !!!
> Any hint would be greatly appreciated !

Apache isn't so stupid to bind to ALL IP's by default. Use ping x.x.x.x to
test things. Using a webbrowser to check things is bad.



	Igmar