[cobalt-security] INTERNAL SERVER ERROR in Raq4i GUI.

["Rodrigo Velasco" <rvelasco@xxxxxxx>]

help,
Since last night (18 hours until now) I can't work with the user interface
in my cobalt Raq4i, all I could get is:

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.

The main GUI screen displays only the green buttons and the background, the
rest of its content is the error message. A couple of times I could reach
the System Status screen and everything there seemed to be not working (gray
color), diagnostic file I downloaded has 0kb size. The same situation occurs
when I accessed the admin screen in the websites inside my Cobalt.

I've tried a backup via FrontPage, but the software displays:
 
Problem Report
There was a communication problem.
Message ID
TCP_ERROR
Problem Description
The system was unable to communicate with the server.
Possible Problem Cause
The Web server may be down.
The Web server may be too busy.
The Web server may be experiencing other problems, preventing it from
responding to clients.
The communication path may be experiencing problems.
Possible Solution
Try connecting to this server later.
 
However I could work with ACCESS BY DOMAIN report with no special delay..

Trying to enhance the server security, during last week I've installed a SSL
self signed certificate and it worked fine, all the patches released by
Cobalt have been properly installed, telnet and ftp have never been enabled
in the server because I work with FrontPage...that means I can't reach the
server files ...annoying, uuh?
By the other hand, the websites into the server are displayed in the web
browser with no problem or delay.

I am thinking in some kind of exploit, march 12th I got a CPU load of 97%
see http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-March/037507.html
Dos?

I need your advice.

Thanks a lot

Rodrigo Velasco