Yosemite Server, Reachability reliability?

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Yosemite Server, Reachability reliability?

Hello Again.

I have Yosemite Server at home, on static IP, domain name pointed to my home server, behind DSL Modem in bridge Mode, through Airport Extreme.

In server app, 1st item (server), Overview tab, Internet: (n) services reachable at xyz.example.com, the "Details" button starts the reachability new feature.

I managed to make, Websites and email (with user@domain.com) work, to name just these, and throughout time, whatever is shown through reachability seem to vary constantly and not reflect at all what appears to be going on.

It used to show mail, messages, and other services.

Right now, it says only messages, although testing with my iPhone from cellular data and my gmail account, I can see web pages and exchange email.

How reliable is "Reachaility"? or is it me who hasn't tweaked thing up sufficiently?

FB.

Mac mini, OS X Server, Yosemite Server, ACTC

Posted on Dec 13, 2014 11:39 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 14, 2014 12:37 AM in response to estrois.me.com

Oops,

Could send email out, but not get it in.

If folowed other threads, turned a few services off (Mail, Messages, Profile Manager, Websites and DNS). restarted the server, turned the services back on.

Reachability says DNS, Messages, Profile Manager and Websites, but not mail. athough I can email in and out without problem.

Suggestion where to look?

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Answer 2

jepping

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785 points

Dec 14, 2014 12:16 PM in response to estrois.me.com

Reachability is a nice new feature which still needs some work. It does work, but for me it only shows VPN open from the internet, where web as well as mail are open and the website http://www.yougetsignal.com shows me the open ports as well.

Why on my server it is not showing https/443 as open is beyond me, so as far as reliability goes I would check out the logs and use a combination of the website I mentioned and for mail http://mxtoolbox.com, that way you know it works properly.

I am expecting to see better results from reachability in a couple of OSX 10.10 Server revisions.

Goodluck

Jeffrey

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Answer 3

Dec 16, 2015 1:52 AM in response to jepping

Is "internet reachability" required in an enterprise environment where the server is NAT'd externally?

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FromOZ

Level 3

554 points

Dec 28, 2015 2:21 AM in response to Bosco1983

No.

Also, as other posters have said "Reachability is a nice new feature which still needs some work". I would elaborate on that and say it needs a lot of work — as in it doesn't work at all.

I trust my hardware firewall more than I trust this. I've turned it off — it provides no value, especially as I see it wasting resources hitting my (open and functioning) ports but not reporting that they are open.

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norly

Level 1

10 points

Dec 29, 2015 12:30 AM in response to FromOZ

Ive got 0 recahbilities, no services at all according to server.app but all services are running fine (mail, dos, cal, websites and so on) and I can connect to everything. So we just turned it off.

Maybe it gets better in the next release, but for now I wouldn't trust it at all 🙂

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Answer 6

Jan 4, 2016 4:46 AM in response to norly

Great, glad its not just me then. 🙂

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Answer 7

Jun 29, 2017 3:09 AM in response to estrois.me.com

18 months later and the issue remains...

I am on OSX Server Sierra w all latest OS updates & App updates
:-( unbelievable

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Answer 8

Jun 29, 2017 3:18 AM in response to James Rothschild

I am back to eat Humble Pie ... I port-forwarded everything to my OSX Server IP and all is well, sorry.

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