[Buildroot] firewall or ...?

Jenkins, Lee (ISS Houston) Lee.Jenkins at hp.com
Wed Jan 23 15:22:56 UTC 2013


I have successfully included apache into buildroot. Everything builds correctly and lands on the target and httpd loads when the target boots. Awesome.

I can wget from localhost on the target and download index.html, so httpd seems to be working. However, the web server does not respond to requests from external network clients. I wondered if the problem was on my LAN, but I was able to ping and even ssh into the target from those network clients. So the network seems to be OK.

In my admittedly limited experience this seemed like a firewall problem. But... there is no /etc/sysconfig/iptables and here's what iptables reports:

[root at buildroot sysconfig]# iptables --list
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
[root at buildroot sysconfig]#

It looks open to me. Can anyone suggest why the web server is only serving requests from localhost?
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