[hobbit] wake up call

Phil Wild philwild at gmail.com
Tue May 20 05:21:17 CEST 2008


What is ttl set to for your domain? It would be interesting to see if the
issue reduces with a higher ttl. Another way to ensure this is not the area
of the issue would be to set the dns server up as a slave.

Phil

2008/5/20 Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>:

> 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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>
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