[Zope3-Users] Crash

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Mon Mar 12 12:53:57 EDT 2007


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:55:53AM -0400, Giovannetti, Mark wrote:
> > From: David Johnson
> > 
> > Our Zope 3.2.1 server is crashing and we cannot determine why.
> > 
> > The last entry in the access.log is the following:
> > 218.160.132.172 - - [10/Mar/2007:22:11:45 -0500] "CONNECT  
> > sextw.com.tw:25 HTTP/1.0" 404 0 "-" "-"
> > 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> This is an attack on your server to attempt to proxy a 
> connection (CONNECT) to a third party SMTP (port 25) server 
> (sextw.com.tw).
(snip)
> I would recommend that you place zope behind an Apache
> proxy server for its protection.

Pound might also be a reasonable choice here. (Haven't tried it
myself.)  But yes, you want *something* in front of Zope.

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Paul Winkler
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