Horst Herb wrote: > If you want to consolidate, I still have one spare monster UPS - 2kW for > several *hours*. Weighs 380 kg, but needs batteries replaced, they don't hold > charge well any more. You would also have to come to pick it up yourself I > suppose.
If David can pick that up by himself he ought to be heading for Beijing in the weightlifting team... >> On another issue I am trying to forward a browser URL request to an >> internal server on a debian box. I think I can do this with mod_proxy >> but I also note mod_rewrite. Is the latter the more modern approach? > > mod_proxy is easy and does what you want. Be careful, though. You'll need to poke a hole in your inner firewall to allow your DMZ Web server to pass HTTP requests courtesy of mod_proxy on to your internal Web server - thus you necessarily will have opened a direct HTTP channel to one of your internal machines, and thus you need to be sure that everything that can be accessed via HTTP on that machine is very secure - easier said that done: witness hackers owning Horst's servers in Germany not once, but twice, via HTTP as I recall, due to insecure wiki CGI scripts written by third parties (is that correct, Horst? BTW, no hint of criticism there, but a salutary tale when someone as cluey as Horst can be stung repeatedly by hackers exploiting published weaknesses in third party applications). Once hackers "own" a box on your internal network, they can do quite a lot of poking around on your network - many protocols can be tunnelled over HTTP. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
