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Re: [cobalt-users] Server Crash & reboot prbs

> A client of mine crashed the server earlier today with a dodgy cgi script
> that resulted in memory errors.

Bummer... Sounds like that Fork Bomb Professional CGI that gsh mentioned a
while back.

> I had to get the colo to reboot. and i have since rebooted again.
> 
> Login in through SSH takes about 1 minute before the password accept comes
> up and FTP times out when waiting for a response.

This sounds like the server is having problems resolving your host via DNS.
 
> Is there anyway to check whats happening and to resolve the problems?

You could try adding your IP address to the /etc/hosts file on the server to
see if that fixes it. eg.

127.0.0.1       www.yourdomain.com
         ^^^^^^^
         This is a Tab not a space.

hth,
j
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