[Wylug-discuss] System Crash

[Chris Brown]

On 06/07/07, Jim Jackson <jj at franjam.org.uk> wrote:
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> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Chris Brown wrote:
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> > Hi Mark,
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> > On 06/07/07, Mark Spink <dmspink at aria.uklinux.net> wrote:
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> > > Hi
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> > > 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,
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> > > even a few pints grateful!
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> > Sorry to hear of your issues. So networking is still up but ssh and web
> > server are not responding.
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> 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.


Do you have any alternative suggestions? Mark admitted he is not a great
diagnostician. He has asked for help, not criticism.

> Can you browse to the web server by ip address or login to ssh via ip as
> > opposed to domain?
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> errr.... the problem's with his server, not his client.
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How do you know that? You are making assumptions based on very little
information. I would respectfully ask that you - and anyone else responding
to this thread in the future - assist Mark or not respond at all.

Regards
Chris

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