[hobbit] wake up call

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Tue May 20 05:15:00 CEST 2008


That was someone's theory in a very large post about this issue in the
past.  I did install a caching only named on the box and it did not
fix the problem.

Did relieve the stress of my other DNS server though :)



On 5/19/08, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> This doesn't relate to the apache error, it relates to your problem... This
> is a theory...
>
> I am wondering if you are running a caching name server on your hobbit
> installation? If not, I am wondering if the fping places too high a load on
> your dns server and misses the occassional host. Even with a caching dns
> server you may see the issue every time ttl expires.
>
> Phil
>
> 2008/5/20 Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>:
>
>> Gavin,
>>
>> I am having a very similar issue - though it is not every single day.  My
>> issue is that every host (or almost all of the hosts) will have conn:red
>> and
>> then come back up ~60s later.  I just confirmed this weekend that it is
>> not
>> related the Via NIC (Using an Intel Pro/100 S now).
>>
>> An issue like that is almost always Apache related.  Can you post the
>> errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log from this time period?
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Every morning at 7am I get pages from every host I monitor including the
>>> display server,  that its connection recovered.. the it runs great for
>>> the
>>> next 23hrs.  looking at hobbit web page I see no down time nor do the
>>> servers show any down time.  But when I click on the historical web link
>>> to
>>> see the info.. I get this.. I really love hobbit..  but I am not a Web
>>> guy
>>> at all and I think it might be apache related…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Internal Server Error*
>>>
>>> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
>>> unable to complete your request.
>>>
>>> Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost and inform them
>>> of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may
>>> have caused the error.
>>>
>>> More information about this error may be available in the server error
>>> log.
>>>  ------------------------------
>>>
>>> *Apache/2.0.54 (Yellowdog) Server at misery.pgx.local Port 80*
>>>
>>>
>>>
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