Thanks Doug, I ran chkdsk in read only mode and it did not detect any errors.
What I meant about "opening a web browser and a page not being displayed" was that opening a browser window on the server itself would not bring up an outside page. Could this be a NIC issue? Brook At 03:50 PM 06/06/02 -0500, you wrote: >You said the server was NOT serving pages. >But, no, you can't - Checkdisk should be scheduled at boot time and then the >server re-booted. >The run time for the operation on an NTFS system could take from 10 to 60 >minutes depending on how large the drives are. During this time the server >would be offline. The reason for that is so that the file checker will not >run into open (but maybe corrupted) files and skip them. >Following the checkdisk operation, then the defrag should be run as well. >and the length of time that will take will depend on how long it has been >since it was last run, and again, the size of the drives. The defrag >operation can be run while the server is up and running, however, it will >not defragment any files that are in use at the time. >For a live server that is doing part of the job, the decision should be made >whether to take it off line now for the operation, or to schedule it for a >late-night when server traffic is not a factor. That is the server admin's >decision. > > >Doug >http://www.clickdoug.com > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brook Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:57 PM >Subject: Re: IIS, NT4.0 and failed outbound connections > > >Really? So you think this is a sign of a much bigger problem? Can I run >check disk while the server is serving pages?? > >Brook > >At 01:03 PM 06/06/02 -0500, you wrote: > >This problem sounds a lot like file corruption of some kind. First do a > >check disk with the /r option and see if that will repair the file > >structure. If that does not solve the problem, then a restore from the >most > >recent backup might be in order. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Brook Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:12 PM > >Subject: IIS, NT4.0 and failed outbound connections > > > > > >Our NT box is exhibiting strange behavior! For the last two days it has > >decided to stop allowing outbound connections over at least HTTP,HTTP and > >FTP. When pinging the outside world from the webserver this works okay. > > > >But opening web browser on the server does not return a page. The problem > >is that our payment processing engine which securely posts data to a remote > >server is also failing!! Rebooting the server DOES fix the problem. I have > >unplugged our firewall and the problem persists leading me to believe the > >firewall is not the culprit. > > > >Has any one seen anything like this before??? I am at a loss.... > > > >Brook > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
