CentOS - Jan 2008 - Question on http stop responding

I have a machine centos 5.1 fully up to patch that is on a network that 
has other machines
that takes credit cards. In such an environment I have found that there 
is something called
PCI - Payment Card Industry standards.

They are scanning my machine to make sure it is OK to be on this network.
One of the faults coming back is "Web server stops responding" to 3 
consecutive HTTP attempts

Is this a setting in http?
Anyone familiar with this?

Thanks,

Jerry

Jerry Geis wrote:
> They are scanning my machine to make sure it is OK to be on this network.
> One of the faults coming back is "Web server stops responding" to
3
> consecutive HTTP attempts
Are you running an http server on that machine they are scanning? If
yes, do you need to be running one ? From the sounds of the error it
seems like there is not a web server running on that system and whatever
scanning system thinks there is, a faulty scanning system assuming there
is a web server running on a particular port.

If you are running a http server, check the error/access logs to see
if there are any problems detected by the system.

And I'd suggest running tcpdump or some sort of port scan/network scan
detection software while they run the test so you can see exactly what
they are looking at. At the last company I worked at they were working
towards PCI compliance, and there was at least 50-60 servers that did
not run any sort of HTTP service(they ran other services that talked
other protocols). While we talked about PCI compliance I never heard
of anything needing to scan the network for HTTP servers.

nate