[cobalt-users] Re: Newbie Q about webaliser :)

["paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, paul wrote:
>> When I try to access ftp it comes up with....
>>
>> 500 Illegal PORT command.
>> LIST
>> 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused
>> List Complete: 0 bytes in 0.09 (1.00 KBps)
>>
>> Account exists ok tho...

>Are you sure you have FTP enabled?

>> And when I try to access the admin page (www.domain.com/login) for each
site
>> I'm getting "page cannot be displayed"

>Maybe a DNS issue (wag),
>What happens if you use http://ip.add.re.ss/login or have you run
>http://ip.add.re.ss:444/intro


I haven't run http://ip.add.re.ss:444/intro (i presume this is what runs on
initial start after a restore or os?) since the initial install.

If I try http://ip.add.re.ss/login, I get page cannot be displayed, but if I
access locally (I'm accessing it over a DSL link normally) using 192.168.x.x
then I can log in no problems (using both admin and created accounts). ftp
access has been enabled, and I guess this proves it??!!  

I guess it's a dns issue. though everything other than ftp and admin login
(web, mail etc etc) works fine!

However I'm not running a local dns server - would that help at all in this
instance? Checkdns.net seems to indicate all is ok....

The only potential problem I can see is...

Status Message
Master DNS defined by SOA (d2gdns1.dns2go.com) was not found among NS
records. 

Help
SOA record contains a name of master DNS server. This name you enter on your
DNS server. However, this name did not match any of DNS servers, listed for
your domain. Often this means that the server name in SOA record is simply
wrong. This can cause problem with Windows 2000/XP computers in this domain,
because Windows machines use this name as a way to find master DNS.

Paul