Re: serving the web without a web server
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote:
>
> --- Keith Robinson <kar@foomonster.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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
> <<SNIP>>
>
> I get connection refused. Are you sure _your_ browser
> hasn't cached the site?
>
Absolutely. I just tried it from a different browser - both Mozilla and IE6 can access it, even when I try shift-refresh. If others can't access it, then it seems to me that ntl might well be doing some serious caching - or perhaps they've broken something.
Keith
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