[K12OSN] OT? Fixing an Open Proxy

[John Baillie]

Debbie,

I thought that a default install of fedora 2 protected against this.

One solution might be to use one of the firewall distributions and put
your web server behind the firewall.
I have used smoothwall. 
http://smoothwall.org/docs/ quite easy to set up and manage.

For a layman's way of checking vulnerabilities check out shields up.
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

John