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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Tracing HTTP connections
To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:58:55 -0700 (MST)
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> OK, this is off topic for FreeBSD, but I suspect that somebody here
> will have some useful input.
> 
> I have a strange problem with a web server here, and I'm trying to
> figure out what's going on.  The problem is that neither requestor nor
> server give me a useful error message.  The server is the CERN server,
> and we've tried with a number of requestors, ranging from Mosaic and
> Netscape on UNIX to Internet Explorer (?) on Windoze 95%.  In each
> case, on bit map images only, the requestor sporadically reports an
> "unable to connect messsage" after about 20 seconds.

Is this running from inetd?

man inetd.

Increase the number of respawns allowed in the time period.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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