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Unable to contact server.

Author: O.Tehownt (16 Jan 05 9:40am)

I can't load the php honeypot it tells me "Unable to contact the Server" do I have to change something ? Do I have to hammer the server until it contacts it?
thank you.

Re: Unable to contact server.

Author: D.Thomas (6 Feb 05 11:03am)

Hi I'm getting the same error when trying to run the script for the first time. Its not PHP because I have lots of PHP scripts running ok.

Re: Unable to contact server.

Author: M.Prince (6 Feb 05 3:31pm)

That's strange. Typically the problem of not being able to contact the server comes up when you're using free web hosting where outbound connections from your server are not allowed. I don't think that's true in your case, but you should check to make sure that your hosting provider allows out-bound connections from your box.

It could be that our servers were not responding for some reason this morning. I've verified that they're up and running now, so try it again and see if it works. If not, send us the URL of your honey pot via the Contact Us form and we'll check into it some and see if we can figure out the problem.

Sorry for the trouble!

Re: Unable to contact server.

Author: X.X2 (9 Feb 05 8:02pm)

I've got exactly the same problem and I wouldn't know on earth's name why because hotlinking protection is completely off.. Isn't there any other way to test if outbound connections are bounced by my server?

grtz

Re: Unable to contact server.

Author: T.Ahmed (2 Mar 06 2:50pm)

Same problem here... really would like to have this problem fixed so any support would be appreciated

Re: Unable to contact server.

Author: R.Barnett (9 Jun 07 8:59pm)

I've tried Perl, Python, and PHP and I get much the same error.

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[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/var/www/cgi-bin/twowaybees.py", line 360, in ?
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] from_cgi()
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/var/www/cgi-bin/twowaybees.py", line 354, in from_cgi
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] settings = _getSettings( os.environ )
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/var/www/cgi-bin/twowaybees.py", line 292, in _getSettings
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] response = _performRequest( request )
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/var/www/cgi-bin/twowaybees.py", line 220, in _performRequest
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] h.request( "POST", __REQUEST_SCRIPT, request, headers )
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 804, in request
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 827, in _send_request
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] self.endheaders()
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 798, in endheaders
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] self._send_output()
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 679, in _send_output
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] self.send(msg)
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 646, in send
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] self.connect()
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 614, in connect
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] socket.SOCK_STREAM):
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] socket
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] .
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] gaierror
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] :
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??] (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')
[Sun Jun 10 14:45:06 2007] [error] [client ???.???.?.??]

wget -O - http://hpr9.projecthoneypot.org/cgi/serve.php
--14:52:36-- http://hpr9.projecthoneypot.org/cgi/serve.php
Resolving hpr9.projecthoneypot.org... 66.114.197.254
Connecting to hpr9.projecthoneypot.org|66.114.197.254|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 472 [text/html]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

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<BEGIN>
result=FAILURE%28100%29
errMsgOn=1
errMsg=%3Cdiv+style%3D%22width%3A+500px%3B%22%3EA+validation+error+occured%2C+preventing+us+from+identifying+your+Honey+Pot.+If+this+problem+persists%2C+you+should+go+to+your+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.projecthoneypot.org%2Fmanage_honey_pots.php%22%3EHoney+Pot+Management+Page%3C%2Fa%3E%2C+identify+the+troubled+Honey+Pot+and+generate+a+new+script+for+it.%3C%2Fdiv%3E
directives=1%2C1%2C1%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C1%2C0
<END>
100%[========================================================================================>] 472 --.-K/s in 0s

14:52:37 (6.73 MB/s) - `-' saved [472/472]

Re: Unable to contact server.

Author: R.Barnett (9 Jun 07 9:08pm)

Turns out that I need to deactivate a feature in SELinux to allow scripts to connect to the external internet.

I think that some exception catching might make things easier. Also it would be great to run the script from the shell.