On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:16:30AM +0100, Sake Blok wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:58:48PM -0700, Linnea Wren wrote:
> >
> > In one file of 101,428 packets, this kind of traffic accounts for
> > approximately 25% of IP conversations, and 50% of TCP streams.
[...]
> Yes, it seems like there are people probing your webserver to see
> whether it is an open proxy. I'm not a webmaster, but I can imagine that
> that's "normal" traffic these days :( The real problem I think is the
> loop that the 302 is creating. Have your server issue a 404 for every
> unknown site and I think you will see an improvement in your servers
> reachability.
Were you able to reduce these spikes of traffic by changing the way
unknown pages are handled?
Cheers,
Sake
