Re: [CentOS] httpd: "internal dummy connection"

on 2-11-2009 3:07 PM Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED spake the following:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:45:36 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:

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Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

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new.mydomain.net - - [11/Feb/2009:14:34:58 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection)"

What is it? Why do I have it now, and not before?

http://tinyurl.com/cnzaf6

If I click this on a FC7) Linux box, Firefox gets redirected to google, and automatically runs a search. I wonder how that happens.

That is what it is supposed to do. It is the smartass way to suggest that you try google before posting a question.

If I try to access it on a WinXP box, ZoneAlarm blocks it as a spy site. I wonder why it thinks so.

Couldn't say why that is.