codered/nimda blocking

[Matt Galster]

Use hardware load balancer (HLB) and fergitaboutit.  Low cost if you already have one, relatively low overhead.  The HLB can probably handle this in its sleep and it should significantly perk things up for the web server.

MEG

> 
> > OK.  Are we agreed that the problem is not the total network but the web
> > servers?
> 
> It is only one of our web servers, a vhost box that isn't behind our load
> balancer. The rest of the network isn't being affected.
> 
> Your suggestion of a log-watching daemon interacting with a firewall
> sounds interesting. It's something we'll have to put on the development
> back-burner for now, though, since we're entering the holiday rush season
> and can't afford to be tinkering with changes to our live site
> architecture.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> -- Peter R. Wood - cephas at cephas.dyndns.org - http://cephas.dyndns.org/
> 
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