At 11:17 PM 8/5/01 -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: >My newly polished-up Debian firewall is logging so many connection attempts >to port 80 that I truly can't believe it. All different IP's and all >day long. I'm considering just DROPing all that stuff without logging, >but I still wonder why all these people are hitting my personal IP. >I'm not harboring secret info or logging credit cards but you would think, >from looking at my logs, my Debian firewall is guarding the Pentagon >(and seems to be doing a good job of it too..hehe). > >--
It's "code red" attacks trying to get in your web-server nothing to worry about if you aren't running IIS every machine on the web is getting hit by these