IPFW not showing correct ip address

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IPFW not showing correct ip address

I am trying to figure out where I might be going wrong. I move my server to a new colocation facility and updated all of the ip addresses. However, when I try to run an ipfw command such as:

$ sudo /sbin/ipfw add 02010 deny ip from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to anyin

It returns the wrong ip. Instead what I get is: 02010 deny ip from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to 67.215.65.132 <--(wrong ip)

Running the following gives me the correct ip.

$ sudo changeip -checkhostname

Primary address = 208.97.56.234

Current HostName = arietis.net

The DNS hostname is not available, please repair DNS and re-run this tool.

dirserv:success = "success"

I am running Server 10.6.8.

Thanks.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Server

Posted on Apr 17, 2014 11:29 PM

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Apr 18, 2014 5:19 AM in response to Corey Blaser

DNS is usually the second thing that's established and tested after the IP address and gateway router address are configured, and the local DNS here is obviously incorrect. Given that valid DNS is fundamental to a working server, I'd want to immediately look into and address that diagnostic. DNS is the basis of most network connections, remote access, certificate-based encryption and distributed authentication. Bad DNS has a long history of causing weird errors with OS X Server, too.

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