[Serusers] SER TCP Errors

[Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul]

On Dec 01, 2004 at 14:13, Darren Nay <dnay at IONOSPHERE.net> wrote:
> Hey All,
>  
> We experienced a problem yesterday with SER and now are attempting to track
> down the reason that it happened in order to "hopefully" find a way to
> prevent it from happening again.
>  
> We have been running SER successfully for the past 5+ months without much
> incident until yesterday morning.  SER suddenly stopped responding to TCP
> requests.
>  
> Once we restarted it then it came back.
>  
> During the period that SER had stopped responding we received the following
> errors repeatedly in syslog.
>  
>  Nov 30 13:00:37 ss1 /usr/local/sbin/ser[19457]: ERROR:
> tcp_blocking_connect: timeout (10)
>  Nov 30 13:00:48 ss1 /usr/local/sbin/ser[19459]: ERROR:
> tcp_blocking_connect: timeout (10)
>  
> Any idea what would cause this specific error? Or what would cause SER to
> suddenly behave this way?

This error happens when a tcp connect() takes too long. Did you have
some network problems during that period?


Andrei