Re: Server down but answers pings

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:54:04PM +0100, LOUHEVLY wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> My OpenBSD 3.4-stable co-located server suddenly went down this 
> morning.  The address is 69.41.171.207.  It responds to pings, but I 
> cannot connect to any ports.  Of course I'm trying to get in touch with 
> tech support in Texas, but I would be very grateful if anyone could 
> offer a suggestion as to what I could do from here (Spain) or what I 
> should suggest to tech support when I get in touch with them.
> 
I've seen some really dead (hardware, or software) machines return pings.
Aparently all that they need to do that is have power, and have once
before, init's the NIC's .

I suspect a reboot is in order, but the console messages will be
interesting.

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