Re: Need help have some questions...

[Ramin Dousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:57:05PM +0200, Ralf Spenneberg wrote:

> Oh, that i might not remember your original post correctly. Lets see ...
> Well, yeah you are right, you never said you wanted to redirect but just
> reject. Ok, my fault.
> Then you could just put a proxy in between. Run your Apache on 8080 and
> run a reverse proxy like apache or squid on 80. But I doubt, that you
> would be happy with it, because it will eat up resources. 
> Make a long thread short:
> There is no good way to do it on one machine. Since you are using Apache
> and not IIS, you will be fine. If the log messages annoy you, bad luck.
> This is just life if you don't filter the request first using a proxy.

OK. If SBalze is running apache, why not using the powerful rewrite rules
of "the great" apache to keep the bad guys away? No need for a
"circuit relay" ;) or a "dumb bridge" ;)

Ramin

> Cheers,
> 
> Ralf