> Bob Brennan 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. > > You don't say where or how the box is connected to the Internet... if > via a hosting / rackspace company then I think the first move would be a > polite email enquiring if they changed any of their routing, > firewalling, proxying, etc arrangements or settings at that time yesterday. Hi Andy - my connection is through a static IP leased from Demon, which is a major ISP in the UK. It is ADSL through a Thompson router, the default inbound server is set to my server's internal IP. At the server I use Firestarter with only HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, and POP3 ports open. The setup has been working for a few months like that. Curiously, and I can't believe this has anything to do with it, I had to put in a whitelist request that morning because my mailserver IP was being rejected as "residential". The whitelist change has not yet taken effect. Unfortunately at the time it was down I was away from the machine and could only test it from 3 separate outside locations, all of which showed mail and ftp working as normal and http just plain not there. Strange... bob
