Re: Server down but answers pings

["Marco Feenstra (Suqata)" <mfeenstra@suqata.net>]

Recently I had an drive Full problem, just one partition(slice) for the 
whole system.
pings did reply but it took in the order of 30-60seconds for my ssh 
session to show me the login prompt. Obviously the fetchmail and postfix 
/ courier refused all service as well.

I suspect it was due to the / and coupled on it the /var/log filesystem 
being full. I didn't look further since I got my ssh prompt and started 
cleaning up some old update files etc etc. At least the client is now 
willing to undergo an harddisc upgrade.
Is short maybe your harddisk is full, you might wait and see if your ssh 
prompt comes up after a minute or so.

Marco Feenstra
Sysadmin @ Den Toom

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.
>
>Many thanks.
>Lou Hevly
>louhevly@terra.es