All the sudden at 10am today our webserver (RH9, Apache2) stopped working. Well, normal connections were working but all SSL connections where dieing. Nothing obvious had changed on the server that would have caused it.
After having 5 - 6 of us looked into the problem for four hours, we
realized that /dev/random had stopped working. 'cat /dev/random' doesn't
output anything. Also interesting is that
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail is always zero. Fortunately
/dev/urandom still works, so we're using that for now.
Has anyone seen this before? Can we borrow some entropy from someone?
:-)
-Evan
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