another domain pointing to my site

It looks like vipscasino.net belongs to another Linode customer and its DNS records haven't been modified in six months. Most likely, that customer misspelled their IP address, or their IP address changed months ago, they forgot to update everything, and the IP eventually found its way to you.

There isn't much of anything you can do about it – you can't stop people from putting silly things in their own DNS records. You could write 'em an email, or something, but that seems excessive to me.

As for Nginx, even if you give your server block a name, when Nginx receives unrecognized names from clients, it will still use the first vhost as the default unless you configure it otherwise, by putting another vhost first, or using the default_server parameter of the listen directive.

You could create another vhost that just does a redirect to your website or returns an error or empty 'Hello World' page or somesuch.

I just get a 404 right now.

Thanks for the replies.

I've put a ticket in with support they have contacted the account owner and requested an edit of their DNS records.

As this post maybe of use to someone in the future. I put the following in nginx.conf to return a "not found" unless its a valid domain on the server.

Deny illegal Host headers.

if ($host !~* ^(http://www.whitbyplumbing.co.uk)$ ) {

return 404;

}

Regards

Andy

@marrax:

As this post maybe of use to someone in the future. I put the following in nginx.conf to return a "not found" unless its a valid domain on the server.
Alternatively, as a sample of what mnordhoff was referring to, just have a default server block to "absorb" any bad requests. I use:

    server {
        listen  [::]:80 default_server;
        location / {
            return 444;
        }
        access_log /...path.../host-bad.log;
    }

I use the separate access log in that block so I can peek in occasionally to see the myriad of bad names I'm getting requests for. I also use 444 since I have no inclination to give a bad request a response at all, and that causes nginx to simply close the connection. You can of course do anything else in this block instead. (This sample is also configured for IPv4/6, so remove the "[::]:" prefix if the rest of your configuration is IPv4 only)

An advantage to this approach is that you don't need to duplicate your server names (both in your conditional check and your server blocks), though that's less of an issue if you only have a single server name. The above block just catches anything not covered by any other server block.

– David

@db3l:

@marrax:

As this post maybe of use to someone in the future. I put the following in nginx.conf to return a "not found" unless its a valid domain on the server.
Alternatively, as a sample of what mnordhoff was referring to, just have a default server block to "absorb" any bad requests. I use:

    server {
        listen  [::]:80 default_server;
        location / {
            return 444;
        }
        access_log /...path.../host-bad.log;
    }

I use the separate access log in that block so I can peek in occasionally to see the myriad of bad names I'm getting requests for. I also use 444 since I have no inclination to give a bad request a response at all, and that causes nginx to simply close the connection. You can of course do anything else in this block instead. (This sample is also configured for IPv4/6, so remove the "[::]:" prefix if the rest of your configuration is IPv4 only)

An advantage to this approach is that you don't need to duplicate your server names (both in your conditional check and your server blocks), though that's less of an issue if you only have a single server name. The above block just catches anything not covered by any other server block.

– David

Many thanks for that advice :)

Hello,

I have the same problem.

My rent a car company in Albania has a website https://www.rentpoint.al and I was trying to optimize google Seo and I find out that another domain is pointing to my web site http://waggiebox.com and it has a lot off links that are pointing to my website.

How can I remove this domain from pointing to my website and does it hearts my seo performance ?

Thanks
eri