RE: [cobalt-developers] ISP shutdown - RaQ 3 down

["Nick Temple" <ntemple@xxxxxxx>]

Question: are you attempting to access a site that is using a shared IP on a name-based virtual host?  If so, accessing http://ipaddress will get you only the "primary" site. Is this the case, or is http turned off altogether?

If you need to access a name-based virtual web-site while nameservices are not available, you'll need to update your /etc/hosts file on your local machine (the one you use your web-browser on).  Add:

www.sitename.com 	xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ww2.sitename.com    	xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
etc.

FTP should / etc should work fine using only the IP address.  If you can't access the machine using FTP, then they have probably disabled it with a firewall or by kill the daemon. If you have root (admin) access, you may be able to restart the services.

If all else fails telnet in, you could tar -cf  sitesname.tar /home/sites/sitename, then email the file to yourself.

Suggestion:  use the web-based "backup" (if you can) for each site from the site-administrator, then restor the files on the new machine.  You will first need to configure the new machine, of course.

For Windoze NT users, /etc/hosts is found in WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windoze 95, it's in \win95\hosts
<soapbox>
By stopping support for older OS's and "forcing" $$ upgrades to 98/2000/Me, Microsoft has lost me as a customer for their OS's, so I don't know what they've done in the new versions.
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Nick


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On 11/14/00 at 12:20 PM Michael Aronoff wrote:

>you should be able to ftp with the IP address and it will let you in.  I do
>this all the time before DNS is functioning for new sites.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dave Simms
>Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:07 AM
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] ISP shutdown - RaQ 3 down
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>Hello everyone,
>
>Our ISP went down over the weekend (down as in out of business).  So when I
>came in Monday morning, the websites were not up.  This wasn't that big of a
>deal, since this machine was at a development location.  But since the
>machine name of our Cobalt RaQ 3 is the default or parent web site
>(www.sitename.com), we're now not able to reach the machine within our
>network.  We can still telnet into the cobalt, but as far as ftp or browser
>access, we don't have it.  The error log says unable to resolve address
>www.sitename.com because of course there isn't a DNS record for us now, not
>to mention an IP address.  How can I access the machine, what files will I
>need to change so I can go to it's local IP address and do system
>administration, I will also need to have ftp access so I can get our
>websites off of the machine.  Any advice or help here is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Dave Simms
>dcsimms@xxxxxxxxxxx
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