Which MT is that? My RB1000 has never missed a beat in 3+ years! FW 5.19. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Jeromie Reeves <[email protected]>wrote:
> I feel ya guys. My core MT randomly forgets how to do DNS at all. > Takes a reboot to fix it. Tried everything from 3.16ish up to beta6. I > am tempted to buy a Cisco! Right now I reboot the core at 3am once a > week, no more issue and about 25 seconds of downtime. > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I woke up today to having problems between my internal networks and one > of my DNS servers. It ended up being a NAT problem. > > > > I think I got it. Half of the problem was the same I was having > yesterday... pings when everything should be working weren't going through. > Well, on one computer. For some reason the computer learns a certain route > to a destination and maintains that no matter what. > > > > > > > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> > > To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 5:55:20 PM > > Subject: [Mikrotik] *&^$#%*&^%$ > > > > Hopefully that subject made it past your SPAM filters, but that's how I > feel. > > > > I did so much in rage, chances are, I caused my own problems throughout > the day. > > > > I had my main switch fail this morning. It had VLANs mapped for all > kinds of stuff (about 15 - 20 VLANs). Of course no one open had a 48 port > managed GigE switch. I set out to reconfigure existing stuff to work. > > > > The RB250GS is an absolute pain in the ass. I don't know why I even have > them. They couldn't handle a complex VLAN setup to save their lives. > > > > I got everything online after several hours through my RB1200, which had > to be reconfigured in many areas so that everything would work. I split the > important VLANs off to their own interfaces to reduce the configuration > load on my RB250GS. I'm doing traceroutes and pings to make sure all > services and devices are up and running. > > > > I notice something odd in my pings out to the net. Traffic goes through, > but pings have a redirect error. I had to figure out why. I fixed it by > breaking a bridge that I had on my 1200, which broke the Internet service > altogether. I ended up fixing it by changing some NAT rules. Well, for the > internal traffic. Servers on public IPs never missed a beat once I got rid > of that redirect error. > > > > I had one hell of a time coming to this conclusion because traceroutes > and pings were not consistent. I have no default route on my internal, > private IP range, only on my public IPs. Traceroutes out to an off-net > public IP would head out my router through my internal network and end up > failing. > > > > If there is no default route pointing to a given IP address, why did > traffic go there? I was under the assumption that if there were no default > route in that OSPF area, traffic would just die. > > > > Once I figured out that my NAT rules were to blame (they weren't > matching correctly after the changed interfaces), I solved that problem. > However, traceroutes to two different off-net public IPs would take two > different routes. One would go the correct direction, while the other would > continue to go down the private IP path. Of course most of the day I had > been testing to the one that now wasn't working. > > > > How? > > > > God only knows how many times in my testing could the service possibly > been working just fine, but my computer was decided to go down the old path > still. > > > > I may have missed some things, but I'm tired of typing it all out, so > I'm done for now. :-p > > > > > > > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -- -RickG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120904/cfcc7f93/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
