Apache Problem With IP resolution

One of the apache rule for the resolution of API seems to be that addresses of request cannot be numeric.

I commented the rule out... But I should take a look whether there is no better solution.

To find the rule posing the problem I looked at the logs in: /etc/httpd/logs/error_log.

There was a line:

[Fri May 09 02:09:51 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.x.xxx] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 400 (phase 2). Pattern match "^[\\\\d\\\\.]+$" at REQUEST_HEADERS:Host. [id "960017"] [msg "Host header is a numeric IP address"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [hostname "xxx.xxx.x.xxx"] [uri "/ajaxmp"] [unique_id "BFUWMX8AAAEAAA8ewlgAAAAC"]

I then did a grep:

$> grep 960017 /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/*.conf /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/modsecurity_crs_21_protocol_anomalies.conf:SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:Host "^[\d\.]+$" "deny,log,auditlog,status:400,msg:'Host header is a numeric IP address', severity:'2',id:'960017'"

I had found the rule causing the problem and commented it out. I hope there is a beeter solution, perhaps a better rule ???

java problem with browser

I noticed again that the java applet were not working correctly in firefox. I looked for the solution since I knew I once had solved the problem. But I could not find it easily again. After I tried to start the ControlPanel from the jre, an error occured:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/lib/i386/libdeploy.so: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I installed the compatibility libraries ( after calling yum provides libstdc++.so.5. Once installed, java applets were working just fine.