Nicolas GUILLAUME's questions

I'm trying to test the SSL connection on one of my servers. The server is behind a load balancer (LB) so it's listening for SSL connections on the port 8090.

I have use the --resolve option to test when talking to the LB which listens on port 443.

curl --resolve 'myservice.com:443:1.1.1.1' 'https://myservice.com'

but when I do:

curl --resolve 'myservice.com:8090:2.2.2.2' 'https://myservice.com:8090'

curl simply ignores the port and goes with 443. Of-course, this causes the DNS cache to miss and I end-up using the public DNS IP...

* Added myservice.com:8090:2.2.2.2 to DNS cache
* About to connect() to myservice.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 3.3.3.3...
* Connected to myservice.com (3.3.3.3) port 443 (#0)

How can I force curl to use the port 8090 for an SSL connection?

Thanks.

I'm trying to expose on my local network a very simple Ruby server running on Linux.

server = TCPServer.new(hostname, port)

My Linux VM runs on a NAT virtual network 192.168.73.X. The port I use is 1564 so I forwarded it using the "Virtual Network Editor" in VMware.

Then I use the 192.168.73.133 as the hostname in my ruby code.

This works great and if I try to connect to my server from the host machine (including with the IP of my host machine 192.168.1.118.

The problem is that I can't access it from an other computer on the network.

I'm guessing that the hostname needs to be changed but I have no idea what to put (except the IP of the host but ruby crashes when I do that). I also read that I needed to create a route in my linux but I can't figure out which one...

So I think that my question is: What route should I add to my linux in order to be able to put the IP address of the host in the host name?

Thank you for your help.

I'm trying to install gitosis on a Server (hosted by OVH and running Ubuntu server 11.04). I've done it a few times and never had any problems.

But this time I have something very wired when I simply try to clone gitosis.

[root@ovks-1:~/]#git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
Cloning into gitosis...
eagain.net[0: 208.78.102.120]: errno=Connection refused
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused)
zsh: exit 128   git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git

Based on my searches it looks like the port 9418 is closed.

But I don't understand, a server by definition shouldn't have any closed port and I can't find a way to see if they are.

So how can I check is a port is open and how can I open it if closed?

Thank you for your help.

Requested by WesleyDavid: iptables -L result

[root@odeoos-vks-1:~/]#iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination   

I have no idea what it means... Thanks :)

Update:

I finally cloned gitosis from github using https://github.com/res0nat0r/gitosis.git and it worked.

My guess is that eagain.net has an actual connection problem and that there isn't much I could do about it...