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.