[hobbit] wake up call

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Tue May 20 05:49:39 CEST 2008


Well almost (good 99%) of my hosts have the testip tag, so it doesn't
need to look up the names.  The things it does look up are 5m TTLs
though.



On 5/19/08, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> >>>  ------------------------------
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>> >>> *Apache/2.0.54 (Yellowdog) Server at misery.pgx.local Port 80*
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