Re: [TCLUG:6646] server crash

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

> Ben,
> 
> Was this machine on a publicly accessible network? There are many DOS's
> for 2.0.35, some of which may have results similar to what you describe.
> My recommendation would be to upgrade to 2.2.10 and see what happens.

This computer diald the internet on demand on a 56k modem and did
ip_masq -- since the logs show nothing since Saturday (and we noticed on
Monday) I doubt it was dos because our connection would have died
between sat and mon and if it diald again not only would teh logs show
that, but we would have gotten a new ip address.

I'm planning on upgrading to redhat 6.0 and 2.2.10 if I get approval for
my time to do the upgrade.


Ben

> 
> ----
> Nate Carlson
> the infinite loop
> natecars@infiniteloop.com
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > My linux server crashed and it had to be rebooted. (This was relayed to me
> > so I don't have teh exact info.
> >
> > What happened is that the server didn't respond to any network activity --
> > no pings, etc.
> > We plugged in a monitor and got tons of messages saying something to the
> > effect that the server could gets memory address for ethernet card and it
> > repeated this message with slightly different numbers over and over. We
> > tried to login to the computer locally but either it was too slow or the
> > messages just interrupted everything, but it wasn't doable.
> > Control-alt-delete did nothing, so we pressed the reset button. The logs
> > look completely normal until Friday night at 10:00pm then they stop until
> > the reboot on Monday morning. So whatever happened caused logging to stop.
> > The computer had been up 80 days or so (486 with 12meg ram running web
> > server and imap/pop plus ip masq on 2.0.35, redhat 5.1. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > BEn
> >
> > Ben Luey
> > lueyb@carleton.edu
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