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Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server



On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:35:17 +0200, Thierry Chatelet (tchatelet@free.fr) wrote: 

> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 08:14:43 Bob Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:08:22 +0200, Thierry Chatelet (tchatelet@free.fr) 
> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > I know it's not really debian related, but:
> > > A site call ripe.net is trying all sorts of addresses to go inside my
> > > sites, like mysite.com/var/www/documents and so on.
> >
> > That certainly seems like odd behaviour. RIPE is one of the five main
> > Internet registries (like ARIN in the US) and is a 'respected' member of
> > the Internet community.
> >
> > http://ripe.net/info/ncc/index.html
> >
> > As a matter of interest, what do these Apache log entries look like?
> 
> Yes, I was surprise when I went to there site to read about what they are and 
> what I see in my logs. I dont understand, and, maybe I am getting a bit 
> paranoïac!!
> 
> Here is an extract of the error log:
> 
> [Sun Apr 20 13:34:51 2008] [error] [client 88.131.106.6] File does not 
> exist: /var/www/documents.txt
> [Sun Apr 20 15:53:35 2008] [error] [client 88.131.106.6] File does not 
> exist: /var/www/robots.txt
> [Sun Apr 20 15:53:35 2008] [error] [client 88.131.106.6] File does not 
> exist: /var/www/priorites.html
> [Sun Apr 20 15:55:19 2008] [error] [client 88.131.106.6] File does not 
> exist: /var/www/qqimages.html
> 
> It is like that every WE. It fills about 200 lines of errors every WE.
> Thierry


bob@trantor:~$ host 88.131.106.6
6.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa is an alias for
6.0-26.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa.
6.0-26.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer c06.entireweb.com.


A 'whois' on entireweb.com shows it belongs to someone in Sweden.

-- 
Bob Cox.  Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/

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