Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
-- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash I'll do my best to describe the problem that I'm having and all of the steps I've taken in diagnosing it. I have a spare PC that I recently setup as a server running debian 7.4.0 amd64 without a GUI. I have years of experience with Ubuntu based distros but this is my first time using debian. I ran the setup using the netinst installer. I installed the web server, sql server (psql), and ssh tasks from tasksel. I configured the networking manually for static IPs on two adapters - one on my "main" network (wifi - 192.168.42.x) and one on a wired network that talks back to my desktop PC via gigabit ethernet (10.42.x.x). I can connect to the server (both ssh & http) from any of my pcs using the 192.168.42.x IP address. I have my wifi router setup to forward ports 22 and 80 to this computer. When I try to connect to it via my external IP, a connection is never made ... it just "hangs" there waiting for it to connect. Eventually the attempt times out. I setup a VM on my desktop PC using VirtualBox and installed 7.4.0 on it to see if maybe there was perhaps something wrong with my system. Installed the same packages via tasksel and configured networking. Again I can connect from the internal network, but not from an external network. To rule out a problem with my router, I redirected ports 22 and 80 to my desktop PC running Xubuntu 14.04 beta and they worked perfectly fine. I contacted a friend of mine who runs debian on his main PC hoping he might be able to offer some assistance (Dick Thomas - xpd...@gmail.com). He configured a VM on his PC and set up SSH on it. He experienced the same problem where you're unable to connect from an outside network. On his suggestion, I setup another VM and this time installed the latest Testing (Jessie) version. I was unable to install packages via tasksel because it crashed on every attempt, but I did install ssh and apache2 via aptitude and then pointed my router to this new VM. I had no problems connecting to the testing VM like I did with the current stable install. I've checked iptables, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny and found nothing wrong with any of them. I'm at a loss for what the problem is, as is my friend Dick. Please contact me and/or Dick regarding this problem with any questions or for any assistance we may be able to provide in finding a solution to the problem. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
