Re: any other half-dead servers lately?

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 16:14 -0700, Greg Merritt wrote:
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likewise

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> On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Greg Merritt wrote:
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> > I have a machine running OS X Server v. 10.4.7. On Tuesday,
> > Wednesday, Thursday, and again today -- but not even close to the
> > same time -- the machine crashed.
> >
> > Except, not really. I could ping it. Ok... but I could also
> > telnet to a service port (25, 80...) and instantly get a socket
> > connection... but the service would not "talk" to me after initial
> > connections. (I could even walk up to the machine and move the
> > mouse and finder&app windows around, but trying to *do* anything in
> > any app would cause the app to freeze w/ the spinning colorful ball.)
> >

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Speaking only for the Chemistry UNIX group, we have not seen any of this
(yet). I am wondering if these affected systems all have SNS scanning
entries in their firewalls?

-geoff

-- 
Geoff Galitz        510-643-1032
Research Computing, UC Berkeley
http://unix.cchem.berkeley.edu
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