I wrote:
> 
> Right now I have a server 500 Km away that I can't log into. 
> It responds
> to pings and it even responds to HTTP requests (it delivers Web pages)
> but trying to connect with FTP just times out and trying to 
> connect with
> telnet just leaves a blank screen (no banner and no 'login:' prompt).

Following up on my own message:

Right now I can't even telnet to the machine any more, I just get
"telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out". This
is new, 20 minutes ago I got "Connected to <hostname>" and then nothing.

The very strange thing is that the machine is still "alive", I can still
fetch Web pages from it and I still get emails from it (output logs from
various housekeeping tasks). The last email came just minutes ago and
was from a mirror.pl job, very much a resource hog. It started at 7 am
and finished at 8:12 am, about normal for that job. The next job is
actually a batch of mirror.pl jobs scheduled to start at 9 am, it will
be interesting to see if they complete.

The job that just finished reported that it had downloaded some 50
files, so outgoing FTP connections still work and disk I/O is not
blocked.

What's going on here?

Gunnar

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