Hi,

Ok so my website works when the domain points to the actual linode. But the nodebalancer says that none of my linodes are online and when i point the IP address to the node balancer it gives me a 503 unavailable message.

I cannot work out what is going on - first i thought it was because my /etc/hosts file did not have the private ip address in it - so i added it in - still no luck. Below is what i added:-

192.168.180.132 mydomain.co.uk

Then i thought it was because IPTables was blocking the connection - so i found a statement that linode said would work on their documentation and added those lines into my IPTables file - after rebooting it still did not work. Below is what i added:-

Allow incoming NodeBalancer connections

-A INPUT -s 192.168.255.0/24 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

Then i tried deleting all of the lines in the IPTables file and rebooting the server - still no luck.

I am only trying to get a HTTP connection through (not even adding the complication of HTTPS) but it simply wont work - any ideas what i am doing wrong?

I have screenshots of my setup but i cant seem to attach them here.

Thanks in advance