[Wylug-discuss] System Crash

[Jim Jackson]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Chris Brown wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> On 06/07/07, Mark Spink <dmspink at aria.uklinux.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a co-location server thats has been running without a problem for
> > over 3 years. This morning we had our first problem in ages, we could
> > not connect to the web server or ssh, however we could still ping the
> > server. Diagnostics is not my main area of expertise and if anyone could
> > tell me where or how-to diagnose what happened I'd be grateful, perhaps
> > even a few pints grateful!
>
>
> Sorry to hear of your issues. So networking is still up but ssh and web
> server are not responding.

Being able to ping is not a great diagnostic. I've seen servers where
nothing userland was working but still responded to pings - ICMP is a
kernel function.

> Can you browse to the web server by ip address or login to ssh via ip as
> opposed to domain?

errr.... the problem's with his server, not his client.