Re: Firewall Service dies like clockwork
- From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:16:45 -0800
Take another look at the perf logs; I'll bet WebTrends is sucking the life out
of your ISA while it creates all those reports for you.
Jim Harrison
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----- Original Message -----
From: Phill Hardstaff
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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: [isalist] Firewall Service dies like clockwork
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I posted something about 3 months back about how my firewall service stopped
working at 0200h every Sunday morning and would not come back up until 0430h
with a reboot or restart the Firewall service. Anyway, after months of pulling
my hair out I finally nailed it, and looking back over some posts on the list
about problems with the firewall service I believe others are probably having
this problem as well.
What happens : 0200h Sunday morning, firewall service dies, web proxy still
runs OK, can still access web site by IP, published servers stop working etc.
Last Friday I ran a Webtrends report on my web server, which is behind the
firewall, this is also my DNS server, this was during the day, within 10
minutes I had these same symptoms that I outlined above, I stopped and
restarted the firewall, I rebooted it but it would just die straight away. I
had hadn't made the link with Webtrends yet, but I shutdown the web server and
while it was off found I could stop and start the firewall service and IT
WORKED. I bought the web server back up and had a look at Webtrends and found I
had all my reports set to run at 0200h Sunday morning (they run sequentially),
boy was I happy. I disabled all the Webtrends reports and shut down the
scheduler. By this time I had to leave work to catch a plane, I checked on
Sunday morning and for the first time in 3-4 months the firewall service didn't
stop at 0200h on Sunday morning.
Why ? Webtrends does DNS lookups while running to resolve IP's from the log
files, you can turn this off but I have had it running like this for about 3
years and never had any problems with my last firewall (Guardian), it seems
that a big flood of DNS lookups kills the firewall service ? because this is
all that is happening. It just seems to loose the plot :)
Any feedback appreciated, I would like to run my reports again.
Phill
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