Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 10:34:57 +0200 From: Olaf Greve <ogreve@millennics.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved] Message-ID: <AAD92C41-531B-4604-98AF-1CF2F92FEF40@millennics.com> In-Reply-To: <405942B8-7714-4F57-914F-24F12DFB206A@axis.nl> References: <2BEB30C2-C9C5-43AB-9DCA-5C9A1B0AC2C0@axis.nl> <20070504111105.GA13599@kzdoos.xs4all.nl> <405942B8-7714-4F57-914F-24F12DFB206A@axis.nl>
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Hi again, Tnx for your further recommendations. I'll take the following actions: 1) I'll report the IP addresses to Spamcop and Spamhaus (note that indeed it appears to be virus-driven, or operated through backdoors, as the server is under constant "attack", coming from a variety of IP addresses). That way, perhaps the ISPs can at least inform the "responsible" people that they have virus infections, and need to act upon it. 2) I may try the hosts.allow trick, but I fear that the IP addresses will be very diverse, so that may not be as full-proof as I'd like. Probably I'll make use of captcha, or something of the likes. 3) I had already tried using Apache to block any and all access to the script, but from the machine itself, but I had done so by adding an "Allow from 123.456.789.10" entry (with the real life IP address, instead of "localhost" or "127.0.0.1"). This didn't do the trick, and I can see why. I'll try this with setting this to "Allow from localhost" or "Allow from 127.0.0.1", and will the perhaps have to change the <form> action handler somewhat. Either way: I should have enough information for now to properly act upon it (though I still welcome further suggestions), so thanks a lot again! :) Cheers! Olafo
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