On 4/13/05, Kristina Clair <kclair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Hi Kristina - FTP and mailserver (the only other 2 open services) were responding quickly and correctly throughout the outage - all running on the same machine. bob > 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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
