Re: strange connections to apache2 port 443

Joe Orton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ssl.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:47:39AM +0200, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:
> this is exactly what I recognized. When Apache 2.0.54 runs on RHEL AS 3 
> using SSL, it opens TCP connections to itself on a regular schedule.

2.0 does this to wake up idle child processes, which can then exit, it's 
perfectly normal - you should modify the firewall rules to allow local 
connections to all listening ports.

joe
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