Hey Kenneth - see, below.  I've paired answers with your questions.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Kenneth Burgener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> My thoughts...
>
> On 9/23/2009 10:09 PM, William Attwood wrote:
> > [Wed Sep 23 21:42:25 2009] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] proxy: DNS lookup
> > failure for: web1. domain.com returned by /file.php
> >
>
> Is the web1.domain.com actually having to be resolved by a DNS server?
> Maybe the DNS server is being overloaded.  Try putting the
> web1.domain.com in the /etc/hosts file.
>
It is in the hosts file.

>
> > [Wed Sep 23 21:42:47 2009] [error] (70007)The timeout specified has
> expired:
> > proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 10.3.1.30:80 (web1. domain.com)
> failed
> > [Wed Sep 23 21:42:47 2009] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
> worker
> > for (web1. domain.com)
>
> This would seem to imply that your web1 server did not respond to the
> proxy in a timley manner.  Is your web1 server overloaded?  Do you have
> a buggy, or overloaded, application that is having difficulties in
> responding within 300 seconds?  What is the your ProxyTimeout directive
> set to?  If ProxyTimeout is not set, what is your Apache TimeOut value
> set to?
>
There is zero loss on ICMP requests between the servers when these errors
occur.

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>
> The other possibility, if you are getting a lot of traffic, is you have
> hit some of the default connection limits.
>
We are set to 1000 Apache processes and using keepalive.  We are at between
100 and 200 when these errors occur.

>
> Which version of apache are you running?
>
 Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   May 10 2009 11:14:03


> Which distribution are you using and which kernel version?
>
RHEL 5

>
> What are your max file descriptors set to: (includes sockets)
>    /sbin/sysctl fs.file-max
>
 fs.file-max = 356881


> What are your current file descriptor limit set to: (includes sockets)
>    ulimit -n
>
 1024

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