Advice on an odd networking problem

[Pete French]

> My guess from "https" + "proportion of calls" + "503":
> Maybe you run out of random data for ssl connections.
> Thus nginx waits for more random data, times out, apache times out -> 503 ?

I didnt know it would do that - interesting. But in this case the https
is on the outside only - those calls are succeeding, its the intrenal
ones, which are http only, which are failing.

-pete.