>Number: 680 >Category: mod_proxy >Synopsis: ProxyPass to non DNS-Host >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 5 04:50:01 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2b11 >Environment: Linux/gcc Linux krebs 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 25 20:46:18 MET DST 1997 i586
>Description: If you have a ProxyPass / http://193.xxx.xxx.14/ line in your config and the 193.xxx.xxx.14 has no dns entry the Proxy will not work, it tries open to a random ip-number. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: 1) to give the 193.xxx.xxx.14 an in-addr.arpa dns entry 2) I think to fix proxy_util.c:proxy_host2addr if gethostbyname(host); failed it should try to the ip-number as hostname? %0 >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
