[Scspamcop] Re: Is Anyone Reaching CastleCops since yesterday evening?--Nevermind

[Mike Easter]

bar0 wrote:

>> I'm haveing trouble getting to http://www.castlecops.com , IE seems to
>> try to load , but eventually gives up.
>
> Now there is a notice about disconnect trouble, something was brought to
> life as I was sending the OP.

Online for me.  They are saying they are working on getting new server
hardware http://www.castlecops.com/server_marathon.html  The web and
database servers are high load and bottlenecks are input and ouput.

As I mess with it, I get intermittency (on some subdomains) such as
"Could not connect to remote server" such as when I try to connect to the
blog  blog.castlecops.com

When that kind of stuff is going on, some other tool than the browser is
more useful.  A simpler tool is idserve which can try to get the webserver
to ident on port 80.  When that isn't working, then just trying to see the
port 80 without an ident tells you something.

Initiating server query ...
Looking up IP address for domain: blog.castlecops.com
The IP address for the domain is: 66.227.46.252
Connecting to the server on standard HTTP port: 80
No response was received from the machine and port at that IP. The machine
may be offline or the connection port may be stealthed.
Query complete.

--- Scanning [66.227.46.252] ports 80 to 0
Port   80 error: timed out

Initiating server query ...
Looking up IP address for domain: www.castlecops.com
The IP address for the domain is: 204.152.184.144
Connecting to the server on standard HTTP port: 80
[Connected]  Requesting the server's default page.
The server returned the following response headers:
<munge> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:43:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: ccsp_session=u676v0rkf144og20qbc66pi5m0; path=/;
domain=www.castlecops.com
Content-Length: 4112
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Query complete.

tracert is only useful if you know the target will echo an icmp ping.
There are also udp and tcp port 80 traceroutes in addition to icmp
traceroute.

A lot of things won't echo pings or tracert.  Some will echo icmp but not
others.

--
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin