httpd Doesn't Seem To Work In Fedora 11

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sun May 24 00:29:39 UTC 2009


On 05/23/2009 08:17 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, I get the impression that httpd is listening on port 443 
>>>> but not port 80 and that is the problem:
>>>
>>> 443 is https port, so this is most probably your configuration problem.
>>>
>>>
>> The issue seems to involve how I have my DNS and dhcpd set up. I use 
>> dhcp to assign specific ip addresses to specific host names. However 
>> I'm not doing a very good job of it with my laptop. I don't know how 
>> to get the same IP address (192.168.1.46) assigned to both my wired 
>> and wireless network adapters (which have different MAC addresses of 
>> course), so that regardless of which adapter I am using at the 
>> moment, I can get httpd to work.
>>
> You may be trying to do this the hard way. Instead of trying to tie 
> the same IP to both NICs, which presents configuration challenges at 
> the best of times, just have the name be the same and it becomes a 
> multi-homed node. That's pretty well handled by almost everything 
> without wizard level config, if you run your own DNS you have two A 
> records for the name, and reverse DNS both IPs resolve back to the 
> same name.
>
> This was my solution, and I don't recall any issues, forward and 
> reverse DNS lookups, IP and name assign in DHCP.
>
> I don't know if this will solve your problem, it's quite simple, I've 
> also done complex things which ran through a VPN always, on the cable, 
> on the wifi, and from the outside when I'm on the road.
>

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the hint. I'll definitely look at my DNS entries later 
tonight and play with them.

Bob





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