network problems [breezy]

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 17:13 -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small website running on a low-tech server at work (just my desktop
> box running breezy & apache2).  Everything seems to be running fine, but
> from time to time network access will be ocmpletely cut off.  The tech guys
> sswear up and down it's not a problem with their networking hardware.  I
> odn't really believe them, or didn't until today, when I found (for the
> first time) that I could ping the machine just fine, but couldn't access the
> web site or ssh into the box.  

Are you sure it was your machine that was actually responding to those
pings? Perhaps someone else on your network segment is "borrowing" your
IP address?

> 
> I'm not at this desk much anymore, so this is frustratingly hard for me to
> figure out.  I wondered what kinds of tools there might be to help diagnose
> this issue (network traffic monitor?  CPU activity log?).  Anyone have any
> ideas?  Also if you have suggestions on how I might be able to tell that the
> problem is with their hardware or my box...
> 
>  thanks,
>  
>  matt
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
> History Department, University of Toronto
> (416) 978-2094
> --------------------------------------------
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
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