Could it be that demon blocked connections to the http port. Shaz On 4/14/05, Bob Brennan <rbrennan96@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
