Re: Help please!!!! - Never mind!

[Stephan Wik <webmaster@xxxxxxx>]

At 3:32 pm +0100 21/1/01, abarguia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> /Local/Library/WebServer/tenon/libexec/iTools.sh
>
> contains all of the configuration of iTools IP addresses.  If you 
> added a virtual host in iTools with the 1.1.1.2 IP address then 
> deleted it manually in the httpd.conf, this can happen.
>
> delete the ifconfig and route lines toward the bottom of the file and reboot.

This, unfortunately, is the  (only) reason we are dropping iTools and 
moving to RedHat with Webmin. We had two occasions when, due to dns 
lag in updating a domain, we had loss of service when our iTools box 
appropriated the IP address of our main server. No warning - no hint 
of what had happened.

IMHO it's just not OK to update ifconfig without some pretty clear 
warnings to the user as to what is about to happen. Automatically 
going out to DNS, resolving a CNAME and updating ifconfig is, I 
suppose, user-friendly but in our case it was a disaster.

On the positive side Tenon tech support did help us find the problem. 
But I just can't risk this happening again.

Stephan
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Stephan Wik                        http://www.anu.net/
ANU Internet Services         Lasso/WebCatalog Hosting

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