Settler http unavailiability - 06 Aug 04

[MarkG]

An web service outage lasting 3 hours and 4 minutes just ended.

After this morning's apache log rotation, there was a malfunction on the process of apache's restart. Apache seemed to run but not actually serve any pages, fooling our server monitoring script (which alerts me on my mobile)

I actually tried to browse Apolyton via my ipaq earlier but the possibility didnt cross my mind and throught it was a problem of the mobile connection

An additional external alert system has been setup

[Unspeakable Horror]

Glad it wasnt´something worse
Now if MZO worked too I would be happier... what is the chance that the 2 forums I use most crash at the same time?

[DrSpike]

You scared me by making me think access to 'Poly had been blocked by the powers that be in computing services.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by DrSpike
You scared me by making me think access to 'Poly had been blocked by the powers that be in computing services.

Me too!

[Atahualpa]

I actually tried to browse Apolyton via my ipaq earlier but the possibility didnt cross my mind and throught it was a problem of the mobile connection

So it was the e-mail I sent you that alerted you?

[PLATO]

Re: Settler http unavailiability - 06 Aug 04

Originally posted by MarkG


An additional external alert system has been setup

So it was the e-mail I sent you that alerted you?

Maybe you could add "External Alert System Manager" to your title.

[Paddy]

glad to be back on line after a friday night off air

[Shogun Gunner]

Agreed. I was wondering why I couldn't reach the site....

It makes me realize how much I use 'Poly

[MarkG]

the problem occured again today causing an unavailiability of 30 minutes....

looking into it further...

[Skanky Burns]

Oh well, at least I missed the bigger outage.
Good luck with your hunt.

[Atahualpa]

Maybe you could add "External Alert System Manager" to your title.

I also did some packet dumping. It was funny, it always passed the tcp 3 way handshake but did not respond to any http get request that followed it.

Watch the TCP Flow in this session

Part1:

[Atahualpa]

Part 2:

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by MarkG
the problem occured again today causing an unavailiability of 30 minutes....

looking into it further...

I was asleep........great timing.

[MarkG]

log rotation done today without problems

i dont anticipate any further problems but since this one was done by hand we'll wait for tomorrow's automated process to be sure

[Kuciwalker]

What's "log rotation"?