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<DIV>Thanks for that, however the person (s) that did the initial setup are no
longer working here. </DIV>
<DIV>It's been a battle trying to find out where the packets are coming from and
where to stop them. Will give this a go and hopefully it'll stop the
proxy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT Networks
Pty Ltd<BR><A
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> devenish@guild.uwa.edu.au 9:11:13 AM 14/09/2003
>>><BR>In message <sf6431cb.060@mmtnetworks.com.au><BR>on Sun,
Sep 14, 2003 at 09:15:47AM +0800, Jon Miller wrote:<BR>> okay this was
supposedly fixed by turning off ProxyRequests ON in<BR>>
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Is there another method of making sure<BR>>
this is off?<BR><BR>Ermm...do you mean how to turn off the *feature*? Well, that
will depend<BR>on your system and would be contingent on details such as WHAT
WEB<BR>SERVER IS SERVING THE REQUESTS????????? For Apache 1 and 2, what you
did<BR>should be fine -- though you might want to inquire with the person
who<BR>went and turned the feature on in the first place. You could also
remove<BR>Apache's mod_proxy, if you want to prevent admins from turning
the<BR>feature on in future. However, mod_proxy might have been compiled
into<BR>your server and cannot be removed without recompiling or installing
a<BR>different package. Most people would find it sufficient to replace
the<BR>line like this (in httpd.conf):<BR><BR>LoadModule
proxy_module
/usr/apache/libexec/libproxy.so<BR>AddModule
mod_proxy.c<BR><BR>with:<BR><BR>#Note from Jon Miller 2003-09-14: DO NOT enable
mod_proxy<BR>#LoadModule proxy_module
/usr/apache/libexec/libproxy.so<BR>#AddModule
mod_proxy.c<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>plug
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