Questions tagged [connections]
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windows 2008 R2 server IIS 7.5 not loading pages on first visit...requires refresh 2 or 3 times
This could be a network thing at my ISP where my box is colocated...not entirely sure. I wanted to just check here to see if anyone has seen an issue like this that is server related so I can check there as well.
if I go to one of my web sites, I…

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How to monitor/log internet up time
I have home network setup, where I have 1 thomson wifi router, 2 telephones, 1 tv, 1 desktop and 4+ laptops. I have the Estonian standard internet of ~15 Mbps for the last 4+ few years. The desktop system is live 24/7 and goes down only for windows…

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Cached content causing a huge number of 404 errors, too many connections
My site has been largely unresponsive for three days due to a large amount of traffic.
A JavaScript element on the page regularly requested images from the server, and the number of connections became a problem as people left their browser windows…

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Find out which users are connected to a shared printer
Today we're migrating to a new file and print server, which made me wonder, is there a way to see which users are connected to a shared printer? It's possible to see connections to shared folders in Computer Management, but I'm not aware of anything…

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how can a server handle lots of port 80 connections
Admittedly this is a simple question but 20 minutes of googling and I just can't find an answer... I will frame my question with an example.
say I own www.reallypopular.com and my website sees 100 GET requests per second. Also let's say the average…

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is there any problem with my server
Below is a Munin Service Monitor screenshot for netstat by day which have a lot of failed connection.
so I need to know is this a serious issue?

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Auto switching between wired and wireless connections
How about this situation. Our business deals a lot with medical information. And some of our clients have demands based off HIPPA, etc.
There is one now where they do not want an employee to have both wired and wireless on at same time. If the…
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Please recommend an affordable cisco product capable of handling up to 100,000 plus simultaneous tcp connections
I am setting up my server lab, can you please recommend an affordable and very reliable router than can handle over 100,000 simultaneous open tcp connections without breaking a sweat?
Thanks!

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Iptables, NAT: avoiding limit on max number of requests per IP by using multiple IPs
In my network, there is a machine which has to make a http request towards a server which is beyond a firewall.
This machine's ip address (as seen from beyond the firewall) can be chosen from a pool of about 5 addresses.
Every ip can execute a…

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Apache spawning hundreds of processes and pushing up load averages
I run a site with about 100,000 visits a day and lately the load averages sometimes hit the roof (250+). They are normally about 0.5-1.5, so I assumed a (d)dos attack. The number of apache processes reaches up to 1,000. However, the number of…

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Enabling Classic ASP Connection Pooling in IIS 6.0
We have an application running on Classic ASP which I'd like to get to use connection pooling.
The application currently uses this as its connection string:
"Provider=MSDASQL; Driver={SQL Server}; Server=db.example.com; Database=DBName;…

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Kill Leaking Connections on SQL Server 2005
We have a legacy ASP application that somewhere leaks SQL Connections. In Activity Monitor, I can see a bunch of idle processes with Last Batch times over an hour old.
When I look at the T-SQL command batch, these are always FETCH API_CURSOR[XXX]…

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Httpd problem, suspect an attack but not sure
On one of my servers when I type netstat -n I get a huge output, something like 400 entries for httpd. The bandwidth on the server isn't high, so I'm confused as to what's causing it. I'm suspecting an attack, but not sure.
Intermittently, the web…
Bob
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Dropped connections between Linux Servers in Data Center
I have a number of linux servers at a us-based datacenter. The servers were installed by the hosting company, and are running fedora core.
We're experiencing problems with dropped connections. The issue seems to be that when we attempt to connect…

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Why is postfix rejecting one particular validly DNS-mapped sender?
I'm running postfix 3.5.18 under Debian 11. The mailserver is working fine for all senders except one.
I regularly am getting this message from emails from one sender and one sender only (where I changed a valid email address on my server to…

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