So I finally got my pfSense firewall to work with my Comcast modem to figure out the prefix delegation correctly so that I could DHCPv6 on my LAN so that I could then set DHCP reservations so that all the machines would get the same IP address. Yeah.
Or so I thought. All my Mac machines work correctly; they lit up seconds after I set the pfSense in place. But the Ubuntu device needed a reboot. ipv6-test.com gives it a passing grade after the reboot and says IPv6 is working.
So the final step is to reinitialize MiaB one last time to that it can internalize the new (and hopefully final) IPv6. Well of course it won’t complete the install process. It won’t even let me specify the IPv6 address.
Primary Hostname: mail.server.pminj.org
Public IP Address: 75.149.174.90
Public IPv6 Address: 2603:3023:30e:a7f0::d:1077
Private IP Address: 10.10.10.2
Mail-in-a-Box Version: v0.43
Updating system packages…
Installing system packages…
Initializing system random number generator…
krettig@mail:~$
I am assuming it is because it thinks it is on link-local?
Just to see I changed my router announcements to “assisted” so that it would allow SLAAC to work. Well it let me specify the public IP address but still didn’t complete the install.
Primary Hostname: mail.server.pminj.org
Public IP Address: 75.149.174.90
Public IPv6 Address: 2603:3023:30e:a7f0::d:1077
Private IP Address: 10.10.10.2
Private IPv6 Address: 2603:3023:30e:a7f0:3850:b127:bd31:955
Mail-in-a-Box Version: v0.43
Updating system packages…
Installing system packages…
Initializing system random number generator…
krettig@mail:~$ ifconfig
eno1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.10.10.255
inet6 2603:3023:30e:a7f0:3850:b127:bd31:955 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0
inet6 2603:3023:30e:a7f0:f61e:68df:cc50:d28a prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0
inet6 fe80::cb71:95e4:452d:3671 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
inet6 2603:3023:30e:a7f0::d:1077 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x0
A little update…
Apparently IPv6 is working correctly as I can send email to gmail (which seems to require MiaB to report the same IP address as what is in the DNS (which is at GoDaddy)). I can also send email while on t.mobile’s IPv6-only network. I even turned on SLAAC in my pfSense; the Ubuntu server seems to be using the SLAAC address when I query the IPv6 test sites (interestingly my Mac machines don’t seem to be using SLAAC; not that I care though).
Still can’t get MiaB to initialize; same symptoms as explained above.
Status Checks page fails.
Well it would seem the whole admin web site is failing.
I don’t know where to look to provide any information that may be needed for someone to be helpful on this.
All fixed.
Did a backup of MiaB, moved the files to a thumb drive, erased both disks of the server (I know you aren’t supposed to erase an SSD but I really wanted to eliminate any ghosts in there), reinstalled the OS, update the OS, copy over the SSL files, load a few things, install MiaB, restore users, reboot a bunch of times to get the IP to load correctly, wait patiently for DNS to propagate, and voila here we are with a seemingly perfect install of MiaB running.