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Re: HTTPD
From: davidzon () METRONET LIB MI US (Vladislav S. Davidzon)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 21:06:26 -0500
I have more of a question rather than a bug report, but I believe its quite important to this mailing list as I believe I have discovered a very severe flaw in the BSDI 2.1 kernel system. Today I replaced the ISA ethernet card in one of our servers running BSDI 2.1 (Pentium 133) with a PCI card. After making minor changes to the configuration of the system (specifically /etc/netstart script, editing the tn0 to say ef0) everything seemed to be working fine. Now the problem seems to be that whenever someone tries to run a cgi-bin script from a certain directory on the server, specifically something under /var/www/docs/directory/cgi-bin all networking features on the server crash. In order for this to happen the one viewing the pages must be located within our IP block (zzz.zzz.zzz.xxx) and not have a reverse DNS on the machine they're accessing this from. Note that we have a separate cgi-bin directory located under /var/www/cgi-bin which is the standard cgi-bin directory, and all scripts run fine from that. The server is a P133 HP Netserver LC 5/133, running BSDI 2.1, and apache. I tried two different versions of apache, including 1.2.4, same problem exists. Any ideas? Thanks Vladislav S. Davidzon .......................................................................... Vladislav S. Davidzon davidzon () tech-center com Technology Assistant Farmington Community Library Phone: (248) 553-0300 Fax: (248) 553-3228 32737 W. 12 Mile Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us" - Oliver Wendell Holmes All opinions are my opinions only, and not those of any organizations I am associated with, unless otherwise specified. ..........................................................................
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