Comments on: Apache: internal dummy connection

By: Valery Dachev

Valery Dachev — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:12:23 +0000

@Linksus I don't think it's something to worry about but I certainly found it quite disturbing.

By: Linksus

Linksus — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:29:56 +0000

Im confused.. Is this an issue?

I see these a fair bit in my httpd access logs. I assumed its nothing to worry about?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:30:07 +0000

Just found this page while browsing the net for some answers. One idea I just came up with (you’ve probably already thought of and discarded it) is to have the default virtual host only display a very simple HTML page (e.g. the default ‘It works’ page), and have it responsible for no actual hostnames/IPs except for 127.0.0.1. Then, setup a virtual host for your actual site.

By: Sasha Weberov

Sasha Weberov — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:56:07 +0000

Sure Valery. We had extremly high loads when restarting or starting Apache 2.2.4 on FreeBSD 6.2 with the latest Mod_Python. It turned out to be Mod_Python and our Django app. We eventually tried running it on SCGI and it solved the problem. It’s also a bit faster and there is less to setup.

Not really on-topic, but that was the problem. Since then the dummy connections have not been much of a problem.

By: Valery Dachev

Valery Dachev — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:30:57 +0000

@Sasha Weberov: Would you like to share your experience?

By: Sasha Weberov

Sasha Weberov — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:52:54 +0000

Ya we’ve been having a problem with these issues now as well, the fix doesn’t seem to work well.

By: Valery Dachev

Valery Dachev — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:38:42 +0000

@Trailmug: I’ve come accross this solution too but I intentionally skipped it as there is a minor performance issue with it. I hope there’ll find another way to achieve the same result, as these results are literally dummy.

By: Trailmug

Trailmug — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:20:05 +0000

SetEnvIf Remote_Addr “::1″ dontlog
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined env=!dontlog

At least cleans up the log some