I've got a very strange problem.
There's a cron job on the server to run a script daily:
wget -O /dev/null --timeout=300 --tries=1 "http://website.com/script"
It was all working well since about two weeks ago, I started receiving errors:
--2016-07-13 09:45:01-- http://website.com/script
Resolving website.com (website.com)... 11.22.33.44
Connecting to website.com (website.com)|11.22.33.44|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.
These are some information for this question:
The cron job is on the same server of http://website.com hosted.
I can access the script (http://website.com/script) correctly from browser on my desktop.
The server is CentOS 7, with WHM and cPanel installed.
Anyone know what could be the issue? or how do I suppose to identify the issue?
Thanks
解决方案
If the issue still is unresolved..
You could try running wget in debug mode to see if you get some more info.
wget -dv -O /dev/null --timeout=300 --tries=1 "http://website.com/script"
Also, confirm if the resolved IP "11.22.33.44" belongs to one of the servers NIC's.
ip a s (ip address show) or
ifconfig -a
If the IP is not listed, It could be that the ip "11.22.33.44" is a public facing address of the company's firewall. And that the FW is directing requests on port 80 from the outside/internet (where you're browser is) to that specific server. And the Firewall/Nat/Proxy, could be configured to not allow requests coming from inside the network, reaching the external IP of the firewall and getting back in.
If this is the case, you could try changing you're wget using the internal ip address, something like: (still using -dv for debugging, remove after)
wget -dv -O /dev/null --timeout=300 --tries=1 --header="Host: website.com" http://127.0.0.1/script
Note1: the --header="Host: website.com" will tell you're webserver what site you wanna reach
Note2: maybe you'll have to change the IP: 127.0.0.1 (localhost address) to one of the server's NIC addresses.