[Nut-upsuser] Nut not working remotely

[Leslie Rhorer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 12:56 PM
> To: Chris Boot; Leslie Rhorer
> Cc: NUT Users
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut not working remotely
> 
> 
> On Aug 14, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Chris Boot wrote:
> 
> > On 14/08/2011 18:30, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:29 AM
> >>> To: lrhorer at satx.rr.com
> >>> Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut not working remotely
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 	Hello everyone.  I have NUT up and running on three servers,
> >>> What version(s) of NUT?
> >> The system I can reach is running 2.2.2 under Debian "Lenny", kernel
> >> 2.6.26-2-686.
> >>
> >> The systems I cannot reach are running 2.4.3 under Debian
> >> "Squeeze", kernel
> >> 2.6.32-5-amd64.
> >
> > That doesn't actually tell us the versions of NUT you're using...
> > But as I run Debian I think I know what the problem is.
> 
> Chris: I don't think the Debian package versions patch any of the NUT
> networking code, so the versions Leslie mentioned (2.2.2 and 2.4.3)
> are sufficient to identify the LISTEN difference you mentioned below.
> 
> > Edit /etc/nut/upsd.conf and add/change the LISTEN line to:
> >
> > LISTEN 0.0.0.0 3493

Hmm.  The line was there, but it was commented out.  Reading the explanation
in the .conf file, it sounded like it was only necessary if one wanted to
employ a custom TCP listening port.  I guess I should have looked at the
bindings right off the bat.

> > By default newer Debian version of NUT bind to localhost, so you
> > won't be able to access it from other machines unless you make the
> > change.
> 
> Leslie: because of this change, be sure that you convert any leftover
> ACLs in your upsd.conf file to either /etc/hosts.deny lines or
> iptables-style firewall rules.

Yeah, that did it, thanks, guys!