Hi All I am running Centos -4.4 final with all the updates My webserver stop responding after about half an hour od inactivity.I just gets a timeout message. When I try to refresh the page 3-4 times it start active again. Infact all the ports on the server are closed during the inactive period even though I have ssh,ftp and http enabled on it. When the server is responding I can see (with a port scan)the ports are open. I tried disabling the firewall(on the centos server) altogether because the server sits behind another firewall. If I do a restart of the httpd or do any other network related stuff on the server it opens the ports again. Any help is appreciated Regards Anil -- Most operating systems were developed for commercial or technical motives, but GNU was developed for the sake of giving users the freedom to cooperate in a community. And if users don't know this, they will be in danger of losing their freedom. --Richard Stallman Public Key -------xxxxx cut here xxx-------- AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAOJrx7vi+A+tR0pz/nwP8StnPJUOLmwXnxpvb0ty4qyiTzIY3wBmAr37OIccs0+JWT+mXi4mnaFCqoh7YRuhaBhIZ9lqxXGb1r8QnAiEDlrOtjVZTebyrP48awYilSE990/9Mt2ndflcWKoY0Jw1QcsZBCxctOj9sMIFr295xCcLAAAAFQDueRoBYb9ieF7KwvhZ9SlA92BFcQAAAIAY4QidL/eu15JaVWwNrs6Xys8+t2+1h331+G88guxl2q6AMCqgtuZMGomLNVIDN6plZPfxRB6UZYN8q+i03hFErCtX8sk9xO+g5RV8BrC0n87RohNVxm/++fblJ7sNxGYW/eIIm/AduLBhIPe11GDVFA5Km+hxGQSbjLWLVOw5VQAAAIEAvCFtqTOE4XP2n0Ppg6yyXJ/xwwKcJWFRpj7xILkBgTb8E+qeCv2tEgz/67SHTWy3PUG63LLW5cGDANe6Virc1W92y+4v1yFbmcTRHYDm4hI4CgOd/dIrJrkQ3iDj/M84x60uAJ7RYdtoHjDv/phXua02Xl9OMa7Zi79emxZtzPI= Anil at cuty -------xxxxx cut here xxx--------