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Re: Apache to rewrite or not ..



On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:36, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 18:30, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:40, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > if you're feeling ambitious, you could log these
> > > hits and report them to the ISP they came from, so the ISP can contact
> > > the owner of the machine and inform them that they are infected with a
>
> if you actually read what i wrote, you would see that i never mentioned
> having apache automatically report abuse.  i meant that the admin of the
> web server could write emails to the abuse addresses of hosts that
> attempted to infect him.  clearly, you would never want apache to
> automatically be sending email to anyone.  that's just asking for abuse.

Doing it manually is not much better.  Having lots of people mail you about 
such silly things still isn't much use.

As long as your security is good enough you can just ignore such attacks.

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