[hobbit] How to monitor this Internet public IP of internal FTP server

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:21:32PM +0800, casedj wrote:
> We have an internal FTP server that's NATed via Cisco's PIX firewall, so it has a Internet public IP and offers public access.
> 
> But some people complain that FTP server is not stable. Depending on internal access (to its internal IP of FTP server), it seems ok. But we can't access its Internet public IP from internal network.
> 
> There maybe several possible causes, e.g. carrier's line quality, DNS resolution, etc. We want to monitor its Internet public IP of FTP server to check what the root cause is, how?

More of a network issue than a Hobbit one, really.

What I do is to have a Hobbit network probe running on a DSL connection
from home, just looking at the publicly available services. Anything
sitting on a public IP can be used, really.


Henrik