At 10:17 AM 6/27/00 -0700, Jeff Nelson wrote:
>Ray,
>
>Thanks for the ideas. Fortunately, the server is acting up again
>right now, so I'll elaborate, below:
This must be a usage of "fortunately" that I am unacquainted with. Oh well ...
Based on your further comments, it sounds like the system is actually
refusing connections, not just ignoring them until they time out. Since both
httpd directly and inetd are involved, this is unlikely to be a simple
configuration error. A few thoughts ...
1. Might it be an authentication problem? If both httpd/apache and
inetd/tcpd require successful reverse lookups, a problem in name service
would serve as a common point of failure. Check what the programs are
requiring in that regard, and check whether there is a problem with whatever
nameservers the host uses. (If this is the cause, the "refused" messages
would come only after a minute or more; if they come almost at once, it is
not a likely source.)
2. I assumed before that you had a swap partition. Do you? How big is it?
Might you actually be running out of memory? Probably not, if you can start
other processes -- even something as simple as "ps ax" -- locally.
3. Might you be running out of some other resource -- file descriptors,
process IDs? Just fishing here. Once again, if something like this is the
source, it will affect any attempt to start (almost) any new process, not
just the net-based ones where you are seeing the problem.
...
>>From a remote system, Netscape reports "Netscape's network
>connection was refused by the server linux.innoved.org. The server may
>not be accepting connections or may be busy. Try connecting again later."
>
>Telnet reports: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection
>refused"
>
>ftp reports: "ftp: connect: Connection refused"
>
...
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------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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