Re: serving the web without a web server
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:18 +0100
> "Keith Robinson" <kar@foomonster.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web sites, including
> > http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and even though I've stopped apache
> > (apachectl stop), I can still ping the web site:
>
> Apache has nothing to do with whether a system responds to a ping. If the
> network interface is up, properly configured, has a valid IP and no
> filters it will respond to ping requests.
>
> (snip)
>
> > So, I do a traceroute (from a remote box):
>
> Same holds true for traceroute.
>
> (snip)
>
> > So, are ntl or newnet (where the box is located) caching (aggressively)
>
> Most likely not the case.
>
> (snip)
>
> > Any thoughts? I'm a bit stumped.
>
> Might want to take a look at the Networking HOWTO.
>
>
Ofcourse - doh! Thanks. However, the site is still accessible through a browser, despite hard refreshes. So, since I am not serving it, then I was thinking that it might be cached (or perhaps something else) - and therefore not avaialbe to everybody?
Any further thoughts?
Thanks for your help so far,
Keith
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