From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 16:45:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3338A16A40A for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 16:45:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A00413C48C for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 16:45:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E617CB6CFE; Tue, 8 May 2007 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id C96303050E; Tue, 8 May 2007 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-a2274bb00000318d-9b-4640a90ef14f Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id BDB133050C; Tue, 8 May 2007 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7E85FDE7-87BA-4A48-B129-1084A6068988@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:45:01 -0700 To: Olaf Greve X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: faqfreebsd Questions , Koos van den Hout Subject: Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 16:45:03 -0000 On May 8, 2007, at 5:51 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: [ ... ] > -Can anyone recommend me proper anti spam authorities to whom I can > report the IP addresses that caused the issues on my machine? Try doing a WHOIS lookup on the IP address, and send a report containing sample httpd-access log lines or the message-board spam to the abuse contacts, if listed. In some cases, WHOIS does not return useful info-- in which case, doing a traceroute and noting the ISP used for the last few hops will probably do. > -At present, in Apache I have added: > > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > > Can anyone tell me of a good way to only ever allow calls to this > script coming from the proper previous script, or should this be > handled from PHP itself? Perhaps this question isn't very clear, > but what I'm looking for is a way to block any and all direct calls > to this script, that originate from anywhere but from the > photography site itself. Add something like "Allow from localhost" to the Location block quoted above? -- -Chuck