swestrup | Sleepy Geek

Woke up after only a few hours sleep due to seriously congested sinuses. Experience said that I should take something for it, and stay upright while it worked, so I came into the office to check my mail. Well, it seems that a test of the new external DNS system had failed, although it worked for me. After 45 minutes of head scratching I discovered that one of my DNS options didn't do what I thought it did. (It wasn't a destination IP match, but a source IP match). The results were that I had only activated external DNS for people routing requests from my external IP interface. ie my test rig.

So, once I found that I quickly fixed it, and I did some testing from a random nslookup site on the internet, and it now looks quite good. (and a few paragraphs in the manual now make MUCH MORE SENSE -- doh!)

Meanwhile it seems like

denizsarikaya got her firewall going. It did indeed turn out that the one step in the setup process that I couldn't remember for sure having done, we didn't do.

So, although I'm a very tired Sti, and will probably sleep in due to this disruption, I'm feeling both geeky and accomplished. Re-Night all!