Re: [PHP] problem with url_fopen on free hosting environment

2007-11-29 Thread Samuel Vogel
Ok, I did find a solution by accident. I just blocked all tcp requests on port 80 and 443 comming from my own outside IP. Since I have a couple of servers, I just dropped the following into rc.local on all of them: # Blocking url_fopen requests ownip=`curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org | awk '{

Re: [PHP] problem with url_fopen on free hosting environment

2007-11-28 Thread Samuel Vogel
Thanks for the infos. I read through the very interesting post, but I did not find it to be a solution for my problem. I tried to limit connections with iptables, but it did not work out. I'm not an expert at this, I tried like it is described here: http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?sh

Re: [PHP] problem with url_fopen on free hosting environment

2007-11-28 Thread Samuel Vogel
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RE: [PHP] problem with url_fopen on free hosting environment

2007-11-27 Thread Andrés Robinet
eb: http://www.seo-diy.com > -Original Message- > From: Samuel Vogel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:13 PM > To: php-general > Subject: [PHP] problem with url_fopen on free hosting environment > > Hey guys, > > I am running an free host

[PHP] problem with url_fopen on free hosting environment

2007-11-27 Thread Samuel Vogel
Hey guys, I am running an free hosting environment and do have some trouble with allow_url_fopen. Right now we prohibit this, but it's requested by many of our users. The problem is something like to following script, which calls itself over and over again, being run on our server: http://dom