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Architecture / Installation

Architecture / Installation


strange outgoing web request to samplecorporation.com from tiki every time a user logs in?

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I recently set up TikiWiki, and it was running fine. Just recently, however, I and my users noticed that when logging in, it would take several minutes before a response came back. Upon further investigation, I discovered that every time I request a page from the tiki site, an httpd process (I'm running apache 2.0.50 on Linux) would try to make an outgoing tcp connection to samplecorporation.com:80. My site can't reach that host (outgoing syn packets don't get a response), so the connection timing out was what caused the site delays. To further verify this, I've set up an iptables firewall rule to automatically reject any outgoing connection to samplecorporation.com:80, and that has solved my problem (the site is responsive now). The problem still obviously is, that this is a ridiculous hack... I'd like to know why my tiki site is attempting this connection in the first place. I've grepped through the files for the entire site, and I see no references to the string "samplecorporation" or its IP. Does anyone have any clue as to what is going on here?


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Doh! Just when I think I'm crazy, I'm not. Although a reverse lookup on the IP it's trying to connect to returns samplecorporation, another site that is being referenced by name also happens to be hosted on the same server and maps to that IP as well.

Paul


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