Server gone down b'cos of robots?

What is this 243 error code.

[matrix_neo]

207.173.249.138 - - [06/May/2003:07:38:05 -0700] "GET /images/tcust.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.example.com/search/search_results.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"

The above request is made to my server about 17 times for the same page exactly same time ( not even a second different), after this. when I tried accessing url it is down and tried through google search results my log file shows this...

219.65.97.126 - - [06/May/2003:10:20:05 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 243 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"

What is this 243 error code. You guys are great helping others ( Honestly ).

[edited by: heini at 7:14 pm (utc) on May 6, 2003]
[edit reason] url examplified / thanks! [/edit]

[Dreamquick]

Never been that good at reading apache style logs but isnt the status code on that second log entry 301?

(If you already knew this then please excuse my muppet-ry)

- Tony

[jdMorgan]

matrix_neo,

The 243 is not an error code, it's a byte count. The 301 is the response code, and shows a permanent redirect from the page you requested to some other page.

The 304 codes in the image request indicate that the user-agent is doing a conditional GET, and that your server is responding that the file has not been updated since last requested, and should be loaded from the user's local browser cache. Therefore, your server does not re-send the image, it only sends the "304 Not Modified" response. If this image is included multiple ("about 17") times on your page, and you have your cache control header set to "must-revalidate", then this would be the expected signature in your log file.

Jim

[matrix_neo]

Thanks for your reply. This image is used only once in the code. I also want to know if this is a cause for my domain going down? I am able to access cpanel,ftp and even other domain pointed urls hosted in the same hosting account.

[jdMorgan]

matrix_neo,

First, let me say I know nothing about your server or how it is set up. But it would have to be a really badly-misconfigured, old, slow server to crash from only 17 requests per second.

The problem is likely to be elsewhere.

Jim

[matrix_neo]

The problem is likely to be elsewhere

Thanks jdMorgan,
Even I guess so I believe my hosting plan cannot be so bad though it is a low budject plan it offers 30 gb transfer per month. So what could be the other posibilities? I am fairly new to this webmastering arena.