Hi Eric and the WLUG members who reached out to me

Thanks so much for your offer to help! I felt it is appropriate to send through an update to the group that I have fixed the issue.

My setup is�� a VirtualBox VM�� (CENTOS/OracleLinux) hosted on a local ArchLinux�� and I have been using a Hashicorp Vagrant appliance that sets up my webserver ( Eric, its a Jetty server, which is written in Java). Anyhow, when I rebooted the machine the Vagrant script did not pick up the port map. I was so sure that wan't the issue that I was looking elsewhere.. Now that I have tidied that (and properly documented all the variables) it is running just fine.

One of you mentioned LXC as a vm provider and now, I am super motivated to give that a try at some point.��

Cheers!
~Nitish.
PS: yes, wonderful news about RHEL's new pricing policy..�� I picked OracleLinux because of its binary compatibility with RHEL (or so I understand it) and no constraints��on use at its $zero pricepoint.����


On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:23 AM Eric Light <eric@ericlight.com> wrote:
Hi Nitish,��

That's quite a wide range of possibilities you've got going, there.��We're a technical group, so I think a little more detail might get a bit more interest... At this stage the details are scarce enough that we don't have anything to base any guidance on.��

What webserver are you using? Could you share the config details for it? Any chance you've set up iptables, apparmor, or changed your network configuration lately?��

If you gave us IP information for the host pc and the virtual machine, it would help determine whether the problem is a simple network routing issue; especially if you include results of trying to ping from the host to the VM, and then again from the VM to the host.��

While you're at it, the output of 'netstat -tulpn' from the VM will help show if the server is even listening.��

E

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On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, at 14:17, essence networks wrote:
Greetings WLUG!

Loving the discussion here..��

I am wondering��if any linux enthusiasts or freelancers would be interested in looking over my shoulder as I am trying to trouble- shoot my linux host? Am a relatively inexperienced enthusiast of the hands-on variety. I could certainly use your advice!����

Reach me directly on essencenetworks@gmail.com and I can send you my Signal details too.

To migitage��being a bore to the less interested.. I will post only�� a summary of the problem I am trying to solve.��
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Problem: After a reboot, my webserver process�� no longer serves SSL certificates to external browsers.

At the client/browser side�� this command: openssl s_client -connect <<MYSERVERNAME>>:443�� -msg
reports CONNECTED but there is a handshake failure and so "no peer certificate is available."

Now, this was working perfectly. before a re-boot. (I am using a self-signed SSL cert).

This probably means that the http server does not permit service on the port. As it was working prior, this is probably not a port-mapping or privilege issue.��

I suspect that on reboot the DHCP service�� has messed up host addressing but I could be wrong.Probably VirtualBox etc has something to do with it - well outside my depth!

My setup is: I am running the server on my home LAN,.. a VirtualBox VM�� (CENTOS/OracleLinux) hosted on a local ArchLinux install running on my old Intel Macbookpro.
Network setup is Home broadband�� LAN, typical Class_C home network.
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Been trying various utilities like "nslookup -debug localhost" on the server to understand what is wrong/changed but I don't want to mess up my configuration too much..

Cheers,
Nitish.
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