On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Zia Syed <zia.chacho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I've committed a rookie mistake. I enabled ProxyRequest on my > server without securing it and today I realized that my server is > under attack. I've turned off the server (since its a home server), > and change the configurations > ProxyRequeste Off > ProxyVia OFF > > Now when I restart my server, and watch the access log, I see attacks > as shown below. While having it on, i verified via > https://www.astalavista.net/?cmd=proxy that my server aint proxy > anymore. What I need to understand is how can i get my IP off the Open > proxy server list that they bots are using? or am i just at their > mercy right now? You're stuck as far as I know. There is no way to stop the requests until the silly spammers/fraudsters give up trying. There's some more information here, but you seem to already know all this: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/ProxyAbuse --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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