[PLUG] Have Webserver? Check your logs

Mark Phillips mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Thu Jan 7 18:12:25 UTC 2016


A follow up. As a member of the newbie class of web server operators, is
there something I should do about this message?

Mark
On Jan 7, 2016 11:11 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

> I am curious. Is this message meant to be
>
> * funny and harmless
> * a prank that may cause a problem for the uninitiated
> * malicious and meant to do harm
> * something else?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
> On Jan 7, 2016 11:01 AM, "chris (fool) mccraw" <gently at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I got the same thing timestamped 30/Dec/2015:04:16:18 +0000 (so roughly
>> > the same local time as yours). Kind of funny,
>>
>>
>> Me three.
>>
>>
>> > as long as it doesn't inspire legions of copycats.
>>
>>
>> I am not worried about copycats - logrotate dutifully removes them from
>> the
>> face of the earth even if they are nonsense.  plus, I am ok disabling the
>> DELETE verb on my apache (ref:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4167305/apache-limit-put-and-delete)
>> since none of my apps use it.  Of course there will always be other
>> vectors, and then someone will make a close of denyhosts to shut things
>> down, if it really escalates :)
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