From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 27 16:30:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA16973 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from cafu.fl.net.au (cafu.fl.net.au [203.63.198.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16840 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from tiger.fl.net.au (tiger.fl.net.au [203.63.198.11]) by cafu.fl.net.au (2.0/adf) with SMTP id LAA28638; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:29:51 GMT Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960328212630.00c16bf0@mail.fl.net.au> X-Sender: adf@mail.fl.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:26:30 -1000 To: Michael Dillon From: Andrew Foster Subject: Re: Well how do you guys cache & proxy html? Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ----------- Andrew Foster Sydney, Australia