My apache was slowing down big time today morning and when I looked at the logs I realized that I've approx 10 page-requests per second from various ip's to pages that are not hosted on my server.
example: buzzurl.jp 204.45.41.82 - - [10/Mar/2010:14:49:34 +0100] "GET http://buzzurl.jp/tag/firefox%20add-ons/200902 HTTP/1.1" 200 19620 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible ; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" the requested page and the source-IP are new in every line. I know this "ghosts" from earlier logs and never knew why they were in my logs but I never thought about it, cause they were infrequently. But now I'm really overrun by these request. So I wonder: whats going on here? Is this a targeted attack? where are these requests coming from? buzzurl.jp (from the above example) does not resolve to my host-ip, but thats not the issue cause the name is in the request-header. What worries me more is that my apache didnt give back a 404 like it should but a 200 !!?? How can that be? I dont have a default-page running and when I reconfigure my client here so that buzzurl.jp points to my server and request buzzurl.jp then I get a 404. So again: whats going on here? Why does my apache give my precious time to stupid request? does the request trick my apache? As you can imagine I'm bit in a stress here, cause my "real" webpages are getting incredible slow and the requests dont stop and I dont know how I can block them. Any idea or experience with this? thnx peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
