Website up, then down, then up, etc.

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:53AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> I did change the listen address to 8080 in httpd.conf and in the port
> forward on the router, and rebooted.
> NOW IT IS WORKING! As of 10:42 CDT, which is 16:42 UTC.
> http:/howse.homeunix.net:8080
> Is there anything else to look at, or any files to peruse?
> Running on port 8080 is _*not really acceptable for the long run*_.

That's good in one way: it means that your system is actually working
perfectly well.  Unfortunately it also implies that the problem is
actually somewhere in the network downstream of you.  Since it seems
to affect all external users equally, the problem must be within your
service provider's network.  The only thing you can do is open a
ticket with your support and pray that it gets looked at by someone
with a clue.

The on/off behaviour often means that you're interacting with a dual
server system, which is possibly meant to provide redundancy, but one
of the servers isn't working correctly and the load balance isn't
cutting out the duff machine.

	Cheers,

	Matthew	

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