I have a 4th generation Airport Extreme acting as the main interface between my network and the internet. I recently installed OS/X Server on one of my machines on the network, during that install process it asked for the credentials into my airport. Thinking it would be a good idea, I gave it to it. First sign that was a bad idea was that it immediately rebooted the AP without any warning it was going to do so. Now the AP locks up every day or so. (might be load related, heavy internet usage days seem to cause it to lock up faster.)
When it locks up:
- the status light remains green
- it falls off the network
- can't be pinged
- can't connect to with management tools
- dns isn't answering
- dhcp isn't handing out addresses
- no ipv6 tunnel traffic will be routed
- no ipv4 nat'd traffic will be routed
So far, I've only configured a couple services on the server... none of which conflict with the services offered by the AP (DHCP, DNS, etc.)
I'm not seeing any indication of what Server actually changed on my AP, does anyone know how I can undo whatever they did? Or any idea why it might be locking up?
The Airport Extreme is running firmware 7.6.3. OS/X server version is 2.2.1 (169)