Thanks guys...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <toaster@shupp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [toaster] Qmailadmin errors
> On Feb 23, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Bill Shupp wrote:
> >> File error 6 (192.168.0.10, <my public ip> != 192.168.0.10 ..
> >> ip_addr=192.168.0.10&returntext=&returnhttp= )
> >
> > Try using --disable-ipauth. I don't know why this started happening
> > out of the blue, though.
>
> It's very odd. It's like the web server is setting REMOTE_ADDR to
> include both the private and public IP of the machine accessing the
> page. I'm not sure how it could even get the private IP in the first
> place...
That confuses me too; but I have seen a few websites able to return the
private IP of my PC.
> The cryptic "File error 6" is a security thing to prevent someone from
> hijacking your session. If your IP address changes during your
> QmailAdmin session, it will bail with that error.
Ah, cool.
> Bill has the correct solution, --disable-ipauth in the configuration
> options.
OK, thanks - I will do if it comes to that!
> This might be interesting -- try running this simple perl script as a
> cgi and see what it reports:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
>
> foreach (sort keys %ENV) {
> print "$_ is $ENV{$_}\n";
> }
Here are my edited results (sorry did the removing public IP/domain names
thing:)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------
DOCUMENT_ROOT is /www/vhost/www.qmailadminsite.tld
GATEWAY_INTERFACE is CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT is image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING is gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is en-au
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL is max-age=259200
HTTP_CONNECTION is keep-alive
HTTP_COOKIE is AWSUSER_ID=awsuser_id1107818209949r6720
HTTP_HOST is www.qmailadminsite.tld
HTTP_USER_AGENT is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET
CLR 1.0.3705)
HTTP_VIA is 1.1 squid.mylinuxrouter.tld:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE4-20040111),
1.0 adl-pow-pr1.tpgi.com.au:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE7)
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR is 192.168.0.10, 220.244.57.214
PATH is /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
QUERY_STRING is
REMOTE_ADDR is <looks_like_1_of_my_ISPs_proxys_IP>
REMOTE_PORT is 53116
REQUEST_METHOD is GET
REQUEST_URI is /cgi-bin/test.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME is /www/cgi-bin/test.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME is /cgi-bin/test.cgi
SERVER_ADDR is <qmailadminIP>
SERVER_ADMIN is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SERVER_NAME is www.qmailadminsite.tld
SERVER_PORT is 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL is HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SIGNATURE is <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at <A
HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">www.qmailadminsite.tld</A> Port
80</ADDRESS>
SERVER_SOFTWARE is Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 mod_ssl/2.8.22
OpenSSL/0.9.7d
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------
>From this, I wonder if our recent change to round-robin of
www.qmailadminsite.tld could have affected things? Considering that the
check is IP address-based?
Only thing is, I wouldn't expect that the IP address could change
mid-session... I mean the M$ browser I'm using supposedly caches successful
DNS responses for 12 hours by default...
Thanks again,
David.
> --
> Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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