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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 1999 03:04:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        george vagner <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root server log entries
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990425030213.2095W-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <000201be8ee2$68d69900$0300a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com>

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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, george vagner wrote:

> I have a 2.2.8-stable machine that hosts
> a few virtual domains and there is no
> real root domain, what i mean is that
> all of the domains are under virtual host
> headers.
> 
> I am getting this in my root domain log
> under /var/log/httpd-access.log
> 
> can you explain whats happening here? as you see
> this is the only thing that is hitting the
> root server.
> 
> 
> Feb  9 20:00:00 www newsyslog[3047]: logfile turned over
> 202.101.175.243 - - [26/Mar/1999:06:43:07 -0700] "GET http://www.s3.com
> HTTP/1.1" 200 542 "-" "ProxyHunter"
> 202.98.23.40 - - [09/Apr/1999:05:13:49 -0700] "GET http://www.s3.com
> HTTP/1.1" 200 542 "-" "ProxyHunter"
> 202.98.23.114 - - [09/Apr/1999:07:19:06 -0700] "GET http://www.s3.com
> HTTP/1.1" 200 542 "-" "ProxyHunter"
> el02-24-131-161-84.ce.mediaone.net - - [22/Apr/1999:15:23:16 -0700] "GET
> http://www.s3.com HTTP/1.1" 200 542 "-" "ProxyHunter"
> modemcable117.202-231.mque.videotron.net - - [24/Apr/1999:15:49:01 -0700]
> "GET http://www.s3.com HTTP/1.1" 200 542 "-" "ProxyHunter"

Some bozo is checking to see if your web server will relay web pages.

Basically, they connect to your web server and ask for a page offsite, 
if it returns it, they know you are a proxy, or at least a 
misconfigured proxy.

didn't "ProxyHunter" tip you off?

-Alfred



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