hi thierry the box is behind a mandrake firewall, the mnf that is found in cooker, there is no firewall per se on the web server, but going by something that james has said i suspect that either installing apache using a mandrake specific package, or having httpd start at boot, causes msec to automatically set this /proc... thing, makes sense, i've no idea what a 'smurf' attack is, but if it involves pinging and i don't need to ping, then turn it off :-)
bascule On Tuesday 24 September 2002 5:10 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > Do you have checked your rules of iptables or ipchains for something like: > proto ICMP type 8 DENY (ping request) > Best regards > Thierry > > >suddenly the box i've been setting apache up on is invisible to pings, i > > can ssh onto it, it serves web pages locally, it's behind the firewall -- Good old Dame Fortune. You can _depend_ on her. (The Truth)
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
