From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 2 22:12:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from almazs.pacex.net (almazs.pacex.net [204.1.219.156]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF06B427D for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (danielb@localhost) by almazs.pacex.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA61458 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:12:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:12:31 -0800 (PST) From: daniel B To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE:Weird Apache access log files sorry for the junk stuff! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry guys my apology the last posting I made has some 'junk' stuff that I captured from the buffer and mistakenly pasted to the message... pine over SSH is kind of flaky for me some times. The posting should have looked like this: Hi Felas; I was going through some of the access log for one of our website and I get a lot of these: 205.188.209.244 - - [02/Feb/2000:07:49:37 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6146 205.188.209.244 - - [02/Feb/2000:07:49:37 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6146 205.188.209.244 - - [02/Feb/2000:07:49:38 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6146 . . . 205.188.209.240 - - [02/Feb/2000:11:56:25 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6146 205.188.209.240 - - [02/Feb/2000:11:56:25 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6146 205.188.209.240 - - [02/Feb/2000:11:56:26 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6146 . . . now look at this: % nslookup 205.188.209.244 Name: stress-dt03.proxy.aol.com Address: 205.188.209.244 and; % nslookup 205.188.209.240 Name: cache-dt12.proxy.aol.com Address: 205.188.209.240 These requests are realy flooding my webserver should I block the above two IPs at the firewall? what is aol trying to do?? Thanks Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message