The recent discomfort you all suffered by not being able to access this lumpy, lukewarm gruel of pixels now has an explanation. From Pixy Misa, the chief of the land of Munu, we find out this:
I don't think it was an attack this time, though I'm checking the logs to see if I can find anything.
Twice, roughly a week apart, the Apache server on Yuri (that is, the software, not the hardware) locked up and stopped serving web pages.
There's an automated system in place that restarts Apache when this happens.
It didn't work.
Manually restarting the web server didn't work either.
I had to reboot the machine to get it back again.
Right now I don't know why this is happening. It might be some sort of attack, but I have no specific reason to think so.
Unfortunately, this time it waited until just after I went to bed to screw everything up.
Pixy Misa commented on July 18, 2006 at 10:19 PM
Well, that was fun. I got the server fixed, then the entire network went down.
Pixy Misa commented on July 19, 2006 at 02:54 AM
And transfats.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at July 19, 2006 10:21 AM