[plug] TCP connections refused

[Brad Campbell]

Ryan wrote:
> 
> Anybody have any idea what it could be doing based on the basic info
> I've given?  It is a remote machine, and I can't connect to it any time
> soon to see what is going on.
> 
> I'm guessing some dodgy RAM or something, has anyone seen this behaviour
> before and could put a different slant on it?  There are no IDS things
> running on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan

I had a machine here do a similar thing where the kernel "died" with an 
oops. This stopped ALL userland programs from running, and thus 
accepting connections, but the in-kernel stuff like NAT and normal 
routing continued along quite happily.

echo 30 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic
helps sometimes also, although when the kernel does panic, everything 
stops anyway.


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