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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Maarten Litmaath, CERN wrote:

> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Vega Forneris wrote:
> 
> > Hi again Daniel,
> > 
> > > lcg-bdii is running
> > 
> > what kind of element is suffering this problem? Here at ESA-ESRIN had same 
> > problems with our WNs which are NATted behind MasterNode/CE : I found the 
> > problem was related to the lcg-bdii startup and update scripts : they 
> > write a redirection on the CE from port 2170 to others (range 2171-2173) 
> > in iptables chain...to check it lauch:
> > 
> > $ iptables -t nat -L
> > 
> > Try to stop lcg-bdii service and flush all entries (save your 
> > configuration first of course)
> > 
> > $ service lcg-bdii stop
> > $ iptables -F
> > 
> > (check all rules are flushed: $ iptables -t nat -L)
> 
> To flush the "nat" rules, you need to do this:
> 
>     iptables -F -t nat
> 
> In any case this may not be enough: I have seen some of our nodes get into
> a state where iptables did not report any rules, netstat showed port 2170
> being listened on (with the BDII just restarted), yet connections were refused.
> In such cases a reboot is a solution.

The good news: we are testing a new version of the BDII that no longer uses
iptables at all.  We expect to make it available shortly.