Re: [cobalt-users] ftp problem between 2 Raq4s

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi there,
> I'm hoping that one of you experts can help me.
> I have two Raq4's next to each other, both are running ipchains with the 
> others IP addresses in "accept" rules and also each has each others 
> address in the hosts.allow file.
> The problem I have is that one can not see the other to ftp / ping and 
> the second has a strange ftp problem.
> For example (the ip addresses have been changed to protect the innocent) 
> :-
> Problem 1
> Server 1 can not ping server 2 and,
> [root logs]# ftp 212.67.195.yyy
> ftp: connect: No route to host
> ftp>
> The above seems to hang for about 10 seconds before returning the "no 
> route to host" message
> Problem 2
> Server 2 can see server 1 (ping works ok) but
> [root /etc]# ftp 212.67.195.xxx
> Connected to 212.67.195.xxx.
> 220 ProFTPD 1.2.5 Server (ProFTPD) [ns3.server2.co.uk]
> Name (212.67.195.xxx:admin): admin
> 331 Password required for admin.
> Password:
> Although this connect is supposed to connect to server1 (at the ip 
> address given) it actually connects to server2 - I can prove this as the 
> login will only take the password for server2 and when connected I can 
> CD to /home/sites and I see the sites on server 2 not server 1
> These two servers are both patched up to the last but 1 patch - they 
> don't have the PHP patch but I don't think that this is the problem as I 
> have been having the problem for some time now.
> All I want to do is us raqbackup to copy a backup of server 1 to server 
> 2 and a backup of server 2 to server 1 - I do not need to import the 
> files, just store them safely on the other machine.  Once I have the 
> problem sorted I intend to create two new users (one on each machine) so 
> that I'm not using "admin" but until I can get the two systems talking 
> to each other I'm not bothering to set the users up ;-)
> Anyone any ideas?

I would guess that the two boxes are sharing the same IP address on some
virtual site.  This would explain some of the behavior you see here. 
I would run the follow command on both boxes to make sure that this isn't the
problem:
$ ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | cut -f 2 -d":" | cut -f 1 -d" "

(You will see 127.0.0.1 on both boxes, that is normal)

Jeff-