Server updated – and still access problems
I updated WASD and SSL to the latest versions and installed them. But than I encountered exactly the same problems as before yesterday: I could not access any of my sites. Since I have now a recent backup of my router, I restored it – but is didn’t help at all. Only by defining the sites in the hosts file on my workstation I can – and that works as long as I’m accessing the sites from the local network.
But that should not be the case!
As far as I can determine, looking at the webserver access log, the admin pages output and the router’s logging, other sites seem, top have no problem. Why I cannot, is a mystery.
But from this point, it looks as if this blog is extremely slow. It works, but that seem to be all. looking at the access log, there is a (Russian) site that POST to one of the xmlrpc.PHP file quite often. I blocked the site, not just the address, but it keeps getting through. So I blocked just the address.
05-Apr-2015
Router re-installation
A few days ago, all of s sudden, I could no longer access any of the sites from wherever I tried. SSH access failed as well, but I still could access the router; but PINGing the server from there went just right. No idea what had gone wrong.
Today I found out that it looked as if access from other sites was no problem at all, bouth router log and web-access log showed incoming traffic, but way less than normal.
To solve the problem start at the front side: so check the router. But as it turned out, I didn’t have any backup of the configuration available – though I did make them; They couldn’t be found. The only solution therefor was to make screenshots of the configuration screens, reboot to factory settings and re-install it to what was set before. It did take some time because, of course, I did forget a screen or two, but within an hour, I had it all working again – basically.
The only issue left was logging; there is still output missing, somehow. However, this has been solved as well.
So I made a backup of the current setting – just in case.
Next thing – that I left for now, because of the sheer amount of work – is redefining the objects to block. That will be done from now on.