Ken Herron wrote: > It sounds like you might have another computer on your LAN using the > same IP address.
Ken wins! The problem turned out to be someone else in IT was bringing a new printer online with the same IP address. Doh! I discovered this when I entered http://mmagdb/ for the 122nd time, and instead of serving up the redirect from Apache, the Plone site, or nothing at all, an HP printer status page from the offending piece of equipment came up with confirmation of the duplicate IP. The printer was promptly brought down and everything seems to be working as expected. Our WAN guy maintains that he checked for duplicate IP addresses. Why do the little things cause the biggest headaches? This is the second time I've run into duplicate IP address problems on this network. The static IPs are mixed into the same host range with the DHCP licensed IPs and IT's system for organizing them or notifying all personnel of IP assignments has failed. It like they just hijack a number and don't even ping for a response. I heard there's an Excel file somewhere that has the reserved static IP addresses on it but changes to the file are not propagated to everyone in the IT group. Huh? There's gotta be a better way... I spent the better part of the last 5 days fretting about this problem which turned out to be because of lack of communication by IT. (Of course, if I knew better, I should have explored that possibility further.) I plan to address this with the parties involved, but instead of just ripping into them I want to bring suggestions to the table. It's not my job to do either of those but it's for their own good, since the next time they knock this server out, the downtime will be far more expensive and they will get kicked with a bigger boot from management. So, if I may redirect the discussion, I'd like to hear about how the network admins on the list organize IP assignments. More specifically, is it wise to put static IPs shuffled within the DHCP licensed host range and simply blacklist the statics from the DHCP server? Why not put the static IPs in a different network, that way the address itself would tell you the address type (static vs. dynamic) and if partitioned out even further, printers could be in one host range on the network ,and servers could be in another. Is it common to just ping addresses to find an unused one and then grab it? Or is this a non-issue and only newbies and hacks are affected by it? Once again, this mailing list has proven to be a useful resource. Many heads are indeed better than one. Regards, Joey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph Karalius Research Associate - Bioinformatics Molecular Markers and Applied Genomics Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc 37437 State Highway 16 Woodland, CA 95695-9353 530-669-6131 joseph.karalius (a) seminis dot com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
