Hi, I dont recognise this as a particular script that is running against your host. Although it could be a custom made script that just sends a lot of characters (or a lot of hello's) to your host, trying to overflow it. My best guess is that it's the overflow option, But i am interested now.. so when anyone else has a opinion... Cheers Kind regards, Remko Lodder Christine Kronberg wrote: > Hi, > > > Checking the logfiles of my private webserver this morning I > see the following entries. > It looks lile some playchild tried an buffer overflow but I > don't remember seeing anything connected to access_log files. > Google didn't help. Has anyone else this kind of requests? > Or an idea what the result of this request should be? > >12.221.111.178 - - [25/Jul/2003:12:40:29 +0200] "HEAD >/logs/access_log?hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello >HTTP/1.0" 404 - >12.221.111.178 - - [25/Jul/2003:12:40:29 +0200] "HEAD >/logs/active/access_log?hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello >HTTP/1.0" 404 - >12.221.111.178 - - [25/Jul/2003:12:40:30 +0200] "HEAD >/access_log?hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello >HTTP/1.0" 404 - > > Cheers, > > > Chris Kronberg. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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