on boot, server refused incoming. had to restart network.

[Andrew Bacchi]

When you moved the machine, did you also plug into a different IP port?  
Is it on a different switch?  Is is on a different subnet?  I'd check 
the subnet first, then check the switch port and router.

Chris W. Parker wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>This morning I shutdown a server so that I could move it. When I powered
>it back on it was refusing (or perhaps just not listening) all incoming
>connections.
>
>I was able to ssh to a friend's server outside of my network so I
>networking itself was working and that it wasn't a hardware problem.
>
>I couldn't ping, ssh, or send email to my server after powering it on.
>
>I finally stopped the network service and then started it again. After
>that everything went back to "normal".
>
>This leads me to believe that the network is being started at boot time
>differently than it is when I do 'service network start'.
>
>Where do I look to find the differences? (Or perhaps there is an obvious
>solution from someone out there?)
>
>I'm using CentOS 4.1.
>
>
>Thanks!
>Chris.
>
>  
>

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Andrew Bacchi
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