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List:       bugtraq
Subject:    Re: HTTPD
From:       "Vladislav S. Davidzon" <davidzon () METRONET ! LIB ! MI ! US>
Date:       1997-11-26 21:06:26
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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


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