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05-08-2003, 03:35 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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lame HTTP requests
What do people normally do with requests for web sites they're not hosting? ie, www.example.com is pointing at my server and I'm getting a few requests for pages on domain every day, but I have absolutely no connection to www.example.com.
So far I've just been responding with 404 errors; does anyone else have a better solution?Dr. Colin Percival, FreeBSD Security Officer
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05-08-2003, 03:39 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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You could always change your 404 pages, from saying "page not available" to your site's homepage. I can't really think of anything else though right now.
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05-09-2003, 12:14 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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send them to porn popup hell
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05-09-2003, 04:08 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net", or "example.org" into your web browser.
These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3.
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05-09-2003, 04:11 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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I was using "www.example.com" for its intended purpose -- an example in documentation.
That said, it's rather disturbing that IANA has put a web page up for www.example.com -- originally, example.com was defined as "guaranteed to have no DNS entries".Dr. Colin Percival, FreeBSD Security Officer
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05-09-2003, 04:18 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by cperciva
I was using "www.example.com" for its intended purpose -- an example in documentation.
That said, it's rather disturbing that IANA has put a web page up for www.example.com -- originally, example.com was defined as "guaranteed to have no DNS entries".
All being said, don't respond at all, figure a way to drop their packets completely, won't waste bandwidth, just a teensy bit CPU time.
Or contact the person listed on the domain / the registras and complain.
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05-09-2003, 04:59 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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for what reason would someone point example.com to your name servers?