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Evan McNabb wrote: | All the sudden at 10am today our webserver (RH9, Apache2) stopped | working. Well, normal connections were working but all SSL connections | where dieing. Nothing obvious had changed on the server that would have | caused it. | | After having 5 - 6 of us looked into the problem for four hours, we | realized that /dev/random had stopped working. 'cat /dev/random' doesn't | output anything. Also interesting is that | /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail is always zero. Fortunately | /dev/urandom still works, so we're using that for now. | | Has anyone seen this before? Can we borrow some entropy from someone? | :-) | | -Evan
Sorry to post a short non-useful reply, but that has got to be about the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
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