[Nagiosplug-devel] check_http: Socket timeout after 10 seconds (but webserver is up! )

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Tue Feb 4 18:23:02 CET 2003


Are these virtual webs hosted on smae if and host headers or different ip 
and host headers.

You might want to try using both -H and -I

-sg


On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Christoph Stotz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am experiencing a strange behaviour regarding check_http. I am trying to
> check multiple virtual Webs being hosted on the same machine. It seems, that
> first web (I call it first, because it has the lowest IP even if that does
> not should really matter) is checked without any problems, but any following
> times out.
> 
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here--->
> spaehfix:/usr/local/nagios # ./libexec/check_http -H A.B.C.D
> HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK -   0.212 second response time |time=  0.212
> spaehfix:/usr/local/nagios # ./libexec/check_http -H E.F.G.H
> Socket timeout after 10 seconds
> spaehfix:/usr/local/nagios # ./libexec/check_http -H I.J.K.L
> Socket timeout after 10 seconds
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here--->
> 
> and so on. All webs are on the very same server within the same identical
> IIS instance (if "use Apache" pops up in your mind: I have the same problem
> with an Apache Web as well :o). The difference seems to be the way a request
> like the following one is served:
> 
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here--->
> spaehfix:/usr/local/nagios # telnet A.B.C.D 80
> Trying A.B.C.D...
> Connected to A.B.C.D.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.0
> [CR+LF][CR+LF]
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here--->
> 
> On the first Web, this request returns the whole HTML Header- and
> Content-blabla for the "/"-Page. On all the others this request just returns
> nothing within 10 (or more) seconds. I believe this is caused by sending an
> "mixed-old-style" HTTP-Request. Infact on the Apache I get a proper error
> message logged, saying that my request does not conform to RFC2616 section
> 14.23. Not that section talks about specifying the host within the request. 
> 
> Error Message in Apache (so other people may find this article):
> 
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here--->
> [Sun Jan 26 20:45:51 2003] [error] [client A.B.C.D] client sent HTTP/1.1
> request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here--->
> 
> in IIS I only see
> 
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here---><---cut here--->
> 2003-01-26 21:34:21 A.B.C.D - E.F.G.H GET /Default.htm - 200 0 18 206718 80
> HTTP/1.0 - - -
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here---><---cut here--->
> (even if this looks like the check_http succeeded - it did not. It timed
> out).
> 
> So this whole situation makes me believe, that there is something either
> wrong in check_http or unsupported. The fact, that the very first web on the
> IIS works fine and all the other does not makes me believe, that this is up
> to handling virtual hosts in the http-Request (FYI: all those Web own their
> own IP-Address).
> 
> I also tried out running the check_http using the "--verbose" option. This
> does not make any difference:
> 
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here---><---cut here--->
> spaehfix:/usr/local/nagios/libexec # ./check_http --verbose -H E.F.G.H
> Socket timeout after 10 seconds
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here---><---cut here--->
> 
> And if you think, that this might be a network problem, have a look to
> tcpdump's output:
> 
> 
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here---><---cut here--->
> spaehfix:~ # tcpdump src E.F.G.H or dst E.F.G.H -i eth0.3128
> tcpdump: listening on eth0.3128
> 22:47:26.527226 E.F.G.H.42125 > A.B.C.D.http: S 4032238030:4032238030(0) win
> 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 9874648 0,nop,wscale0> (DF)
> 22:47:26.527399 A.B.C.D.http > E.F.G.H.42125: S 702361681:702361681(0) ack
> 4032238031 win 8760 <mss 1460> (DF)
> 22:47:26.527432 E.F.G.H.42125 > A.B.C.D.http: . ack 1 win 5840 (DF)
> 22:47:26.527654 E.F.G.H.42125 > A.B.C.D.http: P 1:17(16) ack 1 win 5840 (DF)
> 22:47:26.703234 A.B.C.D.http > E.F.G.H.42125: . ack 17 win 8744 (DF)
> 22:47:26.703270 E.F.G.H.42125 > A.B.C.D.http: P 17:102(85) ack 1 win 5840
> (DF)
> 22:47:27.240061 E.F.G.H.42125 > A.B.C.D.http: P 17:102(85) ack 1 win 5840
> (DF)
> 22:47:27.241273 A.B.C.D.http > E.F.G.H.42125: . ack 102 win 8659 (DF)
> 22:47:36.520323 E.F.G.H.42125 > A.B.C.D.http: F 102:102(0) ack 1 win 5840
> (DF)
> 22:47:36.520495 A.B.C.D.http > E.F.G.H.42125: . ack 103 win 8659 (DF)
> <---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut here---><---cut
> here---><---cut here--->
> 
> I believe this means, that there is no problem in allocating the network
> socket. 
> 
> So, is there somebody around experiencing the very same problem and maybe
> has an idea on how to solve it (other then by using the check_tcp only) ?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> 
> Christoph Stotz
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> 
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