Mandrake 9.2 installs open proxy by default
 

Just an FYI here....

I've got two Mandrake 9.2 boxes that I found were running Apache as an open proxy. I realized this when Slashdot refused to accept posts from me (at work and at home) and was complaining that I had an open proxy on my IP. Turned out that I did and I had installed default 9.2 mandrake in both locations.

So I disabled it by adding this text to my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf

<Proxy *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.0
</Proxy>

Then I did an apachectl reload and everything was fine.

Seems pretty awful that Apache 2.0 is installing as an open proxy on all Mandrake boxes. Somebody at Mandrake needs to fix that. Unfortunately, I don't have a membership at MandrakeClub, so I can't mention it to any of the support folks.

di11rod

am I overly paranoid about this?
 

Does anyone else think this is a bad policy? Seems pretty awful to me.

di11rod.

I just found out my Linux box has been sending spam because of the open proxy. I'm pretty pissed off, and I didn't even know how to disable the open proxy till I found this thread.

Thanx! I had the same problem too