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My server (7.2-STABLE) suffered at least two outages Sunday through
yesterday after having been up since July (it is a rented dedicated server
with my FSBD install). The first time, I was able to log in via remotely,
saw a ton of spam apparently abusing a php mail form script (more on that
later) filling the /var partition. I purged it, but it still required a
reboot as CPU was through the roof.
Yesterday morning, I was unable to get into the server at all...pings were very
high. I called the provider and got in via KVM over IP. CPU was fine and
there wre no full partitions. As I had to catch a flight, I just rebooted it
and it was fine.
After getting home, I looked in the syslog and see thousands of these:
Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client <IP REMOVED>#57938: error sending
response: not enough free resources
Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client <IP REMOVED>#59830: error sending
response: not enough free resources
Some googling on this error found a reference to a possible queue limiting
problem in pf/qlimit, but the only firewalling I do is a very basic ipfw setup
strictly for bruteblock.
I am not even sure if this error caused the outage(s) or was caused by them,
let alone a fix or workaround. Appreciate any and all clues, especially if you
are familiar with this.
TIA!
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
u...@3.am http://3.am
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