Re: Strange apache problem

By any chance, are you using either mod_md ,or macros?

I started noticing a similar problem after “simplifying” my configs with these two things.

-Dan

> On Nov 3, 2022, at 10:37 AM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm running apache 2.4 on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE.  Packages are up to date,
> haven't installed kernel patches yet.
> 
> Starting about a week ago, sometimes the web server sort of ignores incoming
> https connections.  The client connects, then nothing happens and the client
> times out.  If I restart the web server, the client reports that the connection
> is reset.  I see this from different clients on different machines connecting
> from different networks, so it's not just one dodgy browser.
> 
> What is strange is if I retry the same web page from the same client a
> few minutes later, it often works. The command line gnutls-cli usually
> hangs, while LibreSSL 2.8.3 s_client works (that's the version of
> openssl that comes with MacOS.)
> 
> I have tried rebuilding apache from source, no difference.  When I say it works
> later from the same client, literally nothing has changed other than that I tried
> later.  The server has been up for 165 days and this only started about a week ago.

By any chance, are you using either mod_md ,or macros?

I started noticing a similar problem after “simplifying” my configs with these two things.

-Dan