I am in the process of setting up a VPN server for a client who lives in a Middle Eastern country.
He will be using the VPN for all his internet surfing, email access, etc. (So the VPN will be his internet gateway. His local ISP connection will only be used to make the VPN connection.)
The majority of his internet surfing through the VPN will be to US websites.
Where is the best place to locate the VPN server? I have two datacenters available to choose from: USA or UK
why a client orders a dedicated server from Russia but then they inform us they have transferred the money from Hong Kong bank Telegraphic transfer, different person?
We really do our best to be reasonable but what is the logic behind that?
i know that i.e. Hetzner gives you PA Space with your own Netname ("netname:" field) (maybe also own Adress) but they dont allow to change the "country:" field, and it stays "DE"
I would like to have a block of 8/16/32 IPs with own "Netname:" field, and own "Country:" field (or as Countrycode "CN", "HK", "AG", "BS" or "KY")
Could Provide P.O. Boxes in all that countrys if needed.
The Server behind it does not really matter, location should be not Germany and not USA (cant comply with some Laws in this 2 Countrys) - something like 1Ghz CPU, 80Gb HDD, 512Mb Ram is enough - 100Mbit (or 10Mbit Burstable) with ~350Gb Traffic.
I will be launching a video website like youtube and I have put all the DMCA requirements on it, I'm still not sure if I can get in trouble if someone uploads copyrighted videos, would it make a difference if I get a dedicated server located in Netherlands?
When I enter my_domain.com the browser displays index.php located in httpdocs on my server. When I enter my_domain.com/main/ the browser displays another page, but there's no directory "main" in my httpdocs. Somehow it's redirected to another location (but in URL bar in the browser it's still my_comain.com/main/). I need to find that location.
As I searched through the web, such redirection can be made in .htaccess file, but I can't locate this one either. My server is Apache on CentOS6, and httpdocs directory is located in /var/www/vhosts/my_domain.com. I searched for .htaccess in several locations that I googled, I also tried executing "find / -type d -name '.htaccess'" on PuTTy, but it gives no results.
My server running and update CentOS 4.4. In the last hours lot of spam are being send form my server to the world. I'm unable to locate the source. Sendmail is define to relay localhost, and it seems that the source is local!
It seem that all the email are send from apache@mydomain.com to user@mydomain.com Sendmail is configure to accept for local delivery mail for domain mydomain.com Here is trace of spam session:
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May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: NOQUEUE: connect from mydomain.com [127.0.0.1] May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: AUTH: available mech=CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN ANONYMOUS LOGIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: Milter: no active filter May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 220 mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.12.8; Thu, 3 May 2007 14:39:51 +0300 May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: <-- EHLO mydomain.com May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-mydomain.com Hello mydomain.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-PIPELINING May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-8BITMIME May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-SIZE May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-DSN May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-ETRN May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250-DELIVERBY May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250 HELP May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: <-- MAIL From:<apache@mydomain.com> SIZE=133 AUTH=apache@mydomain.com May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: ruleset=trust_auth, arg1=apache@mydomain.com, relay=mydomain.com [127.0.0.1], reject=550 5.7.1 <apache@mydomain.com>... not authenticated May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250 2.1.0 <apache@mydomain.com>... Sender ok May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: <-- RCPT To:<reports@mydomain.com> May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250 2.1.5 <reports@mydomain.com>... Recipient ok May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: <-- DATA May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: from=<apache@mydomain.com>, size=410, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200705031139.l43BdpDW017695@mydomain.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mydomain.com [127.0.0.1] May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg2017696: --- 250 2.0.0 l43Bdpg2017696 Message accepted for delivery May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg3017696: <-- QUIT May 3 14:39:51 active sendmail[17696]: l43Bdpg3017696: --- 221 2.0.0 mydomain.com closing connection
It seems the spam message BCC contain a lot of victims address, that not from mydomain.
Is some one connect form outside and spoof 127.0.0.1 ?
If it local process, ho do I locate it?
I scan /tmp and my web server root for suspicious file and didn't find nothing!
if anyone knew if with Network Solutions advanced hosting package on unix there was a way to store the documents outside of document root? If not is there a good way to secure a folder/files that is in the document root from users?
I've just finally got fed up with all the people from Israel trying to hack into my servers. Of course they're always auto-banned, but getting several attempts per day emailed to me it gets old...so I banned the entire country.
Anyone else ban entire countries from their servers?
I am very new to web design and have been messing around making mock sites and would like to get some of them live so I can get experience with using host's and get some reviews on my basic designs.
I have just relocated to New Zealand and it seems pretty steep on pricing for hosting companies so can I use hosting companies outside of NZ.
What would be the disadvantages if any?
I am not after anything special like loads of bandwidth or storage.
I had a few sites hacked today. I'm using phpbb (all updates) and, apparently, the only thing they did was to drop the database and replace it with one featuring a single post "advertising" their hacker group. I tried bringing everything back on-line, but they would just attack again and take it down quickly... I'm thinking it's probably just some script kiddies.
They announce themselves as "turkish hackers". Browsing around for their message, I found they attacked quite a few sites. What I was thinking, to help preventing this from happening again, is to ban all visitors from Turkey (none of these sites has a need for them, as they're aimed at a local audience).
Can I do this simply by using "deny from .tr" in htaccess? Or are there any more steps to be taken?
I have experianced a number of attacks all from a specific country.
I would like to completely block access to all users from that country.
I realize that this is not fool proof because people from that country could still use a proxy.
I also realize that people in that country that are not hackers would not be able to access my web site but for the time being I still want to put this in place.
I use Linux / Cpanel / Apache. I have iptables installed.
Is there any way I can block all access to people from the problem country?
setting up another website which will have hopefully both a uk and us audience. I am looking at going with godaddy as they offer a domain extension I want, which no uk service seems to offer. Is there any disadvantages to this, will it operate slower?
I want to stop users from country X from accessing my website, I know I can ban people's IPs but I dont know if it is possible to ban certain geographical area and if so, I haven't got a clue about how to do it.
