Newbie IP question !

Adrian Stovall AdrianS at pfk.com
Fri Sep 1 17:25:18 UTC 2000



 oops...make that "ifconfig -a" for Linux, and "ipconfig -all" for NT
 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adrian Stovall [mailto:AdrianS at pfk.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:07 PM
> > To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
> > Subject: RE: Newbie IP question !
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here are a couple of basic questions for you.
> > 1.	Is your web server listening on those new IP addresses 
> > (you DO have
> > to tell your webserver which IP's to use)
> > 2.	Are those IP addresses set up on your machine?  (ipconfig -a for
> > Linux, and ifconfig -all for WindowsNT)
> > 
> > DNS will not affect your ability to access anything using an 
> > IP address,
> > since it's only purpose is to allow humans to use descriptive 
> > words in place
> > of an IP address.  If you have 4 new IP addresses, and are 
> > expecting to see
> > a web page when you visit them (and you haven't specifically 
> > set them up),
> > you might want to look at some of the faqs for the programs 
> > you're using, be
> > it Apache, Linux, BIND, Windows NT, Microsoft DNS Server, Internet
> > Information Server, etc...
> > 
> > Basic network configuration issues sound like your problem here
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Pope [mailto:daniel-p at direct.ca]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:03 AM
> > > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> > > Subject: Newbie IP question !
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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 !
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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