Domain won't connect

[Daniel Mons]

Is there a local firewall running?

 From a terminal: sudo iptables -vnL

Anything silly in /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny?

-Dan


Lisa wrote:
> Oops, just sent this from the wrong email account, so it's waiting for  
> approval.
> But here it is again anyway...
> 
> An intriguingly frutrating problem occured to a friend of mine yesterday,  
> which I wasn't able to fix...
> 
> She's got Gutsy on a system I built for her a few months ago, I don't  
> actually think the problem is at her end though...
> 
> Everything is working fine, except for one domain that she can't connect  
> to. The domain resolves fine, so it's not a nameserver issue. She just can  
> not get a connection to the server, she tried accessing the site by IP,  
> still no connection... ping returns 100% packet loss... and wget just  
> hangs when trying to connect, just like the browsers do.
> 
> As it's a forum, I thought it'd be good to check she's not IP banned, so I  
> ssh'd into one of my servers, opened links, and went to the forum, logged  
> into her admin account there and no, she's not IP banned.
> 
> She rang Optus, and after they said 'went don't support Linux' several  
> times, we eventually got out of them that no, the domain is not blocked.
> 
> So now I'm lost, I've given her a shell account on one of my server's so  
> she can at least get into the forum on a textmode browser that way.
> 
> Can anyone think of some reason for this that I can't?
> 
> Thanx,
> Lisa
>