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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:26:30 -1000
From:      Andrew Foster <adf@fl.net.au>
To:        Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Well how do you guys cache & proxy html?
Message-ID:  <2.2.32.19960328212630.00c16bf0@mail.fl.net.au>

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Hi Michael,

>I'm running the CERN httpd on my home network as a proxy server as well 
>as at one customer. Both 2.1R systems. When I tried to test the proxy 
>using lynx on the FreeBSD system with http_proxy environment variables 
>the httpd went crazy with forking and I had to do
>
>ps -ax |grep httpd |xargs kill

Yes, this is exactly what happened to me.

>repeatedly to kill them all off. But when I access it from other machines 
>on the network everything runs just fine. I wonder if you are seeing 
>something similar. 
>
>Of course I don't need to use the proxy from the FreeBSD box because it 
>is the gateway that has the real Internet connection. I am also running 
>the TIS Firewall Toolkit on these gateways to provide the network 
>machines (RFC1918 addresses like 10.1.1.1) with access to NNTP, AOL and CIS.

Harvest has given me no problems at all.

Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew Foster
Sydney, Australia




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