Bernardo & Et. AL, Thank you to those of you have generously offered me your assistance. I grew frustrated, gave up and formatted the drive and reinstalled with a slightly newer version of FreeBSD, which seems to have solved the problem. I was never able to determine the root cause of the issue. I suspect that it was something in the OS causing a proxy effect to port 8080. I still have no idea why this happened. The only thing that was on this box is the OS, Perl, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and Apache.
I was able to determine from port scanning the box internally that the httpd process was running, but not allowing any network connections. I know that my ISP is not the issue because I have a web interface on my mail servers which operates initially on port 80 and that was not blocked. The firewall on the box was disabled. The httpd.conf that I was using is now in use running the current build. For informational purposes, in case someone else should encounter this issue, I will repost some things. The netstat that I did looked like this: netstat -an -finet -ptcp > Active Internet connections (including servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) > tcp4 0 0 4.60.243.40.22 4.60.243.201.1277 > ESTABLISHED > tcp4 0 0 *.8021 *.* LISTEN > tcp4 0 0 *.8080 *.* LISTEN > tcp4 0 0 *.587 *.* LISTEN > tcp4 0 0 *.25 *.* LISTEN > tcp4 0 0 4.60.243.40.22 *.* LISTEN This was the ONLY thing in the error log. [Sat Dec 21 23:48:19 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > > [Sat Dec 21 23:48:25 2002] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) > `web1' does NOT match server name!? > [Sat Dec 21 23:48:28 2002] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) > `web1' does NOT match server name!? > [Sat Dec 21 23:48:28 2002] [notice] Apache/2.0.43 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.43 > OpenSSL/0.9.6g configured -- resuming > normal operations Note that "top", etc. showed the httpd process running. However, it remained idle even when I was attempting to make a connection to the box. Apparently the connection request wasn't making it through the TCP/IP stack and reaching the httpd process. Why this was happening, I have no idea. Maybe we were hacked??? Thanks, Ms. Jimi Thompson Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
