Moodle networking (MNet)

Figured it out.

Had nothing to do with the internal / external IP.

It had to do with the WWWRoot on mahara autodetecting as domain.local instead of domain.org because the hostname of the box was domain.local.

So I edited the /var/www/mahara/config.php file and changed
//$cfg->wwwroot = 'http://domain.local/mahara/';
to
$cfg->wwwroot = 'http://domain.org/mahara/';

After that MNET broke due to the SSL key being set to the domain.local, so I had to go into mysql and run the command

UPDATE config
SET value=0
WHERE field='openssl_keypair_expires';

I then went back to the networking page in mahara and it regenerated the SSL key.

From there I went back to moodle and under networking / peers i added the peer using the correct wwwroot. set the services, saved, and deleted the old one.

whew. Thankfully this is a new setup so nobody was using mahara at all.

Hopefully if anybody runs into the same thing as me the above will help them.