server can not acess the internet but can lan

A couple of years back I set up my first web server. virtualbox
I recently decided to upgrade the base set up for extra harddrive space.
I followed this guide (http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-wheezy-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3) and then copied all of the setting from my old set up.
All looked as I just used the lan to test and set up wordpress etc.

when I changed the ip address so that it was live the virtualbox could not access the net but still could locally
some of my set up is

/etc/network/interfaces

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

### For the Internet ###
allow-hotplug eth0

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static

address 203.xxx.xxx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 203.xxx.xxx.0
broadcast 203.xxx.xxx.255
gateway 10.x.x.1

auto eth0:0

iface eth0:0 inet static

address 10.x.x.xxx
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.x.x.0
broadcast 10.x.x.255
gateway 10.x.x.1

result from ispconfig iptables after shutting down fail2ban

iptables -S (ipv4)
-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT

ip6tables -S (ipv6)
-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT

any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Dave

 

Are you sure you gateway is correct ? Address is 203xx and gateway is 10.x ?

 

Hi,

What is the version of Virtual-box you are using?

Br//
Srijan

 

I just checked the working version and it is the same but that may mean it was a fluke that it worked. So if you have any suggestions.
I am open to try them.

Virtualbox is 4.3.0

Thanks
Dave

 

Ok what is your base/host machine on which you have installed the virtualbox?

Br//
Srijan

 

Hi spottyrover,

Please install guesst-additions in your Debian-wheezy. I have faced same issue before & I sorted it as follows:

At Debian run it as root.

Please verify your kernel version in Debain by uname -r

Then install the guest addition cd as :-



Mount the cd as

Finally go to the cd drive in bash & run the additions

Finally reboot the VM, cross-check your VM networking parameters. It will work.

Cheers.

Br//

Srijan

 

amd x4 640 with 12gig ram
running pclinuxos 32 bit
vbox is 32bit debian weezy

thanks
Dave

 

Please check the Above my above thread #6. It will definately sort out your issue.

Thanx
Srijan

 

Have to cook dinner now.

I will recheck your suggestion later tonight. (but I thought it was installed)

Thanks
Dave

 

thanks for your input srijan but it did not work

vbox network is set up as
bridged adapter
eth0
promiscuous mode set to allow all
it was set to deny ( same as old one)


thanks

Dave

 

One more thing, did you rebooted the VM-debian machine after making the changes??

Br//
Srijan

 

rebooted the image only

 

Hi

Please check the your networking parameters.
Please ensure that UFW/IPTABLES don't exist.

Br//
srijan

 

result from ispconfig iptables after shutting down fail2ban

iptables -S (ipv4)
-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT

ip6tables -S (ipv6)
-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT

It looks off to me but I have not played with iptables ( I used guarddog in the past, pity it has gone)

Thanks
Dave

 

The problem was the debian update itself.
After comparing working and not working iptable I could not fing a difference.
So I removed both iptables and fail2ban but I still could not access the net.

So I started the update process again ( thats what I like about virtual images )
Made sure that the virtualbox additions were working corectly.
Then did a partial update of files which were not related to the server ( just in case )
Then did the final update and it now works

This problem was proberly a debian one which was fixed during the time of the first problem and finally getting it working.

Thanks for all of the help

Dave