Is the problem maybe upstream? Is the firewall (which you don't control, and I do feel your pain) getting overwhelmed and your outsourcer is not willing to do anything about it cause it's not in the contract? If you are not showing anything in the access or error logs, then I would suggest that they are plain not getting to your box. The body that controls your firewall needs to participate in your troubleshooting process. My $0.02 Regards, Marshall P.S. I can get to your site with no problems. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Tangren Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:14 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: spotty access to web server I am having a problem with my web server that is difficult for me to resolve. I have a web server at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/ that most people can get to just fine. However, there are a small number of people that get a "connection refused" error. I have had a difficult time finding someone who: 1) gets this error 2) is technically savvy 3) willing to help I have finally found someone, but I still can't solve this problem. My server is behind a firewall (which I don't control). This helpful soul can get to other web servers behind the firewall, but not to this one. He did a traceroute, which was successful. I asked him to do a telnet aa.usno.navy.mil 80 He got a "connection lost to host" error. I was successful in doing a lookup and a reverse lookup on his IP number, so I don't think the server is having problems with DNS. His IP number and name do *not* show up in either web server logs or in system logs. It is as though he never tried to access the machine at all. I do have iptables on the machine, but I turned it off to see if it was the culprit. He still has the connection problem, so I guess iptables isn't the problem. Does anyone know what I might try to solve this problem? Bill Tangren -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
