Re: serving the web without a web server
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:41:09PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote:
> 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.
Just tried it with lynx and things are as they should be (as it doesn't use ntl) - nothing there!
Guess I'll get on to ntl tomorrow and see what they have to say.
Thanks for all the help from everybody. It was appreciated.
Keith
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