• web server errors?

    From The Patriot@VERT to All on Monday, November 12, 2018 08:47:21
    trying to jumpstart my sbbs server and i have it running but getting recurring errors on webserver status screen i cant figure out. pasted screen dump below.
    the error just cycles forever, incrementing the ports by 1 each time until i stop service. looks like its searching for a lost cab file. any tips are appreciated. thanks


    The Patriot
    emcommny.synchro.net
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    11/12 11:36:37a 1712 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:37a 0776 Session thread terminated (4 clients, 10 threads remain, 447 served)
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 !ERROR: 404 Not Found
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 Using SSJS error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 Sending generated error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 HTTP connection accepted from: 127.0.0.1 port 64448
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:38a 1904 Session thread terminated (4 clients, 10 threads remain, 448 served)
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 !ERROR: 404 Not Found
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 Using SSJS error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 Sending generated error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1860 HTTP connection accepted from: 127.0.0.1 port 64449
    11/12 11:36:38a 1860 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:38a 1860 !ERROR: 404 Not Found
    11/12 11:36:38a 1860 Using SSJS error page

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to The Patriot on Monday, November 12, 2018 13:41:12
    Re: web server errors?
    By: The Patriot to All on Mon Nov 12 2018 08:47:21

    the error just cycles forever, incrementing the ports by 1 each time until i stop service. looks like its searching for a lost cab file. any tips are appreciated. thanks

    It's an error but it's not an *error*, so to speak. Something is requesting a document that is absent from your webserver, and your webserver is responding accordingly.

    This is really just a part of having a server open to the internets. I ignore this stuff unless it causes me any actual problem (a crash, slowing down my server, or somehow using a whole lot of bandwidth).

    I would say to block the source of these requests, but then:

    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 HTTP connection accepted from: 127.0.0.1 port 64448

    What's up with that source address - is your BBS webserver behind a reverse proxy or something? If not, the call is coming from *inside the house!*

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Patriot on Monday, November 12, 2018 12:16:22
    Re: web server errors?
    By: The Patriot to All on Mon Nov 12 2018 08:47 am

    trying to jumpstart my sbbs server and i have it running but getting recurring errors on webserver status screen i cant figure out. pasted screen dump below.
    the error just cycles forever, incrementing the ports by 1 each time until i stop service. looks like its searching for a lost cab file. any tips are appreciated. thanks


    The Patriot
    emcommny.synchro.net
    .....

    11/12 11:36:37a 1712 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:37a 0776 Session thread terminated (4 clients, 10 threads remain, 447 served)
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 !ERROR: 404 Not Found
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 Using SSJS error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 Sending generated error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 HTTP connection accepted from: 127.0.0.1 port 64448
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:38a 1904 Session thread terminated (4 clients, 10 threads remain, 448 served)

    See that "From:" IP address? That's your localhost address, which means the requests are coming *from* your computer. Either find and stop whatever software is on your computer and sending those requests or change the Synchronet web server to no listen on "all" network interfaces (use a specific IP address to indicate the network interface, not blank/0).

    digital man

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  • From The Patriot@VERT to Digital Man on Monday, November 12, 2018 15:21:26
    Re: web server errors?
    By: The Patriot to All on Mon Nov 12 2018 08:47 am

    trying to jumpstart my sbbs server and i have it running but getting recurring errors on webserver status screen i cant figure out. pasted screen dump below.
    the error just cycles forever, incrementing the ports by 1 each time until i stop service. looks like its searching for a lost cab file. any tips are appreciated. thanks


    The Patriot
    emcommny.synchro.net
    .....

    11/12 11:36:37a 1712 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:37a 0776 Session thread terminated (4 clients, 10 threads remain, 447 served)
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 !ERROR: 404 Not Found
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 Using SSJS error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1712 Sending generated error page
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 HTTP connection accepted from: 127.0.0.1 port 64448
    11/12 11:36:38a 1616 Request: GET /BingBar/signed/SeaPort.cab HTTP/1.1
    11/12 11:36:38a 1904 Session thread terminated (4 clients, 10 threads remain, 448 served)

    See that "From:" IP address? That's your localhost address, which means the requests are coming *from* your computer. Either find and stop whatever software is on your computer and sending those requests or change the Synchronet web server to no listen on "all" network interfaces (use a specific IP address to indicate the network interface, not blank/0).

    digital man

    Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #42:
    MODEM = Modulator/Demodulator
    Norco, CA WX: 71.6øF, 7.0% humidity, 6 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

    Silly me. I should have figured this out myself. It was one of the Bing apps to IE. Not sure what it
    was trying to do but when I uninstalled the Bing app the errors stopped. I never use any Bing apps
    so wasn’t sure if it was an internal sbbs routine or something. Thanks all.

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