Connection Timed out problem

Hi,

We had a strange problem with Squid (squid 1.NOVM14 on Digital Unix
3.2C) this morning.

Connections to www.canterbury.ac.uk (our site's web server) suddenly
failed - the reason give by Squid on the error page was "(60) Connection
timed out". However connecting to www.canterbury.ac.uk throught our CERN
proxy (which runs on the same host as Squid) was fine as was pinging
www.canterbury.ac.uk from the Squid host.

Also even stranger connections to www.cant.ac.uk (our domain is defined as
both canterbury.ac.uk and cant.ac.uk in our DNS) through Squid were fine.

The Squid logs did not show the reason for the problem, only
ERR_CONNECT_FAIL messages for www.canterbury.ac.uk.

Restarting Squid cleared the problem, but has anyone else seen this happen?

        Nick.

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Received on Thu Nov 06 1997 - 05:26:02 MST