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Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (^Faust^)
Thu Jun 25 21:07:33 1998

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980625203430.723s-100000@tarkin.fdt.net> from Jon Lewis at "Jun 25, 98 08:36:13 pm"
To: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net (Jon Lewis)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:00:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: ^Faust^ <faust@grift.com>

...that would be an inktomi traffic server:

Trying 165.117.17.251...
Connected to dca1-wc2.atlas.digex.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
!
<HEAD><TITLE>Bad Request Header</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white" FGCOLOR="black"><H1>Bad Request Header</H1><HR>
<FONT FACE="Helvetica,Arial"><B>
Description: Couldn't process this request.  Bad HTTP header syntax.
</B></FONT>
<HR>
<!-- (This "Bad Request Header" response (HTTP status 500) comes from a Traffic-Server/1.1.1 network cache.)-->                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
</BODY>
Connection closed by foreign host.

> The proxy we seem to be trapped with is:
> REMOTE_HOST = dca1-wc2.atlas.digex.net
> REMOTE_ADDR = 165.117.17.251
> 
> Trying 165.117.17.251...
> Connected to 165.117.17.251.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> SunOS 5.6
> 
> login: 


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