>Number: 3289 >Category: general >Synopsis: repeated connects kill the server >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 25 07:50:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.2 >Environment: Apache 1.3.2 server running on a Linux 2.0.35 kernel >Description: I'm posting this anonymously cause I don't care to take credit for discovering this weekness. You can choose to close this bug out too without investigating it like the last time I reported it. Yall can either fix the bug before the whole world knows about it, or wait till the whole world knows and then fix it.
And yes the last time the bug was submitted it had PLENTY of information on how to reproduce it. So once again.... read the next section carefully. >How-To-Repeat: Run Netscape 4.0 on a Windows NT 4.0 workstation connected to the internet by a modem (56K). Load a web site with Netscape that is running off Apache. Then hold down the CTRL-R (Reload) key (hold down the keyboard key, don't click toolbar button). Hold down the key for approximately one plus minute. Netscape will attempt to reload this page over and over and over again at an extremely high rate of speed. Typically the send/recv lights both blink rapidly for a while... then the server stops responding completely. It doesn't kill the machine because FTP and other TCP and UDP based protocols still function just fine on the server. Depending on factors yet unknown (strength of the web server box, etc.) it may recover from this after a while or simply never recover at all. >Fix: Don't close out the bug before giving it a valid review. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
