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> > There is a photo on my website that has been served perfectly for a |
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> > long time but today I noticed it wasn't being served and there were no |
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> > errors printed in apache2's error_log (or ssl_error_log). I |
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> > downloaded the file, opened it locally just fine, uploaded it again, |
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> > and it has since been served perfectly again. There is nothing |
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> > unusual about the image. Has anyone seen anything like that before? |
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> > Could this indicate a hard drive or memory problem? |
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> What browser were you using for this? I have been experiencing problems with |
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> Konqueror over the last month or so. It will intermittently fail to download |
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> parts of webpages (mostly images). Other browsers did not seem to have a |
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> problem. |
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> Another looong shot may have to do with pmtu discovery and the possibility |
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> that your server was under 'ping attack', which could have caused its |
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> firewall to drop all pings, inc. those from your client. This would only be |
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> valid if your client MTU is less than 1500. I wouldn't hang my coat on this, |
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> but it sounds like a good conspiracy theory anyway . . . :p |
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Hi Mick, |
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I was using firefox 2.0.0.9 to view the image online and locally. Weird.... |
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- Grant |
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