Did you do a traceroute or any other network diagnostic to make sure that you were actually able to reach the server? It sounds like a networking problem... Kristina On 4/13/05, Bob Brennan <rbrennan96@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a server which went completely unresponsive today on port 80 > for 20 minutes and would appreciate any pointers as to what might have > happened. > > A bit of background: > * FC3, Up2Date > * The Apache webserver serves a dozen virtual websites > * Sendmail + Dovecot + Squirrelmail for all sites > * Spamassasin recently activated (yesterday) > > The problem + observations: > * All websites were inaccessible from 14:00 gmt to 14:20 today > * The mailserver was running and responsive during that time > * FTP was running and responsive during that time > * telnet theServer.com 80 timed out with no connection during that time > > What I checked: > * all access_log and error_log for all sites - showed 5 users using > the sites at the time but nothing unusual > * no evidence of a DOS attack (that I could see) > * no records of anything unusual in system logs > * no accesses or errors in any of the http logs during that time > > Thankfully the webserver came back as if by magic after 20 minutes and > was immediately responsive. > > Any insights into anything else I can check? Needless to say an > embarassing incident for a webmaster who whould like to prevent it > happening again. > > Thanks in advance, > bob > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
