The following reply was made to PR mod_log-any/213; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dirk Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mod_log-any/213 Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 23:43:58 -0600 (MDT) On Thu, 22 May 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Synopsis: Accessing a virtual host results in the virtual host being > referred as remote host in the logfile > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > > State-Changed-By: dgaudet > > State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 25 12:46:42 PST 1997 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Are you sure this is from any host on the LAN, or are > > you accessing from the webserver itself? Linux will always > > use the "nearest" address when given a chance, and if you're > > accessing from the webserver itself, that nearest address is > > the same as the vhost. If this is truly a problem from the LAN > > then please send your httpd.conf and output of "ifconfig". > > > > Thanks > > Dean > > > > Thanks for your reply and sorry for not answering earlier. > > To answer your question: it was an access from another host in the LAN. > > Meanwhile I found out that the effect described is resulting from a > combination of > tools: Apache (we have b10 now and can reproduce the effect), the CERN > server (v3.0) configured as local proxy only and Netscape > 3.01, all on Linux. As the proxy capability of Apache was always reported > as not being too stable we use the CERN httpd instead. But is the CERN proxy running on the same machine as the Apache server? If so, then the real access to the web site is being done from the CERN proxy running on the server, and what Dean writes above holds true; this is the way most Unixes work.
