[YLUG] odd http connections

[Alex Howells]

On 31/01/2008, Stephen Patterson <steve at patter.mine.nu> wrote:
> I have a server running apache2 with a couple of vhosts. Its been
> running fine with the same configuration for months. It was running
> really slow this morning, but restarting a few processes seemed to sort
> that out.
>
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3436 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3439 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3438 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3433 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3432 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3435 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3434 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT
> ip-116-153-72-208.:3431 ip-116-153-72-208.p:www TIME_WAIT

Looks like someone who's queried your Apache recently and it hasn't
timed out the connection yet?  If there's a fair few connections (say
8-10) they could be running Fasterfox or one of the similar
"pipelining" plugins for popular browsers.