OK -- I'm very puzzled. I see exactly what you mean. There are some very odd search queries coming in -- in the same second from *different* IP addresses.
62.11.71.65 - - [13/Jan/2002:03:17:18 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/ubb/search.cgi?action=simplesearch&ForumChoice=ALL&ExactName=yes&SearchUser=????????+?????? HTTP/1.1" 404 133
is quite odd.
Is your site otherwise quite busy? Is there a chance that someone wants your site down? Unfortunately a 'Denial of Service' attack isn't hard to mount by flooding UBB with large numbers of requests -- like searches.
These are 404 'not found', of course. Is it possible your links are spread around the web and people keep clicking? Getting the referrer turned on in your log may help find these.
Are there other assessemnts of this error log?
Michael Farris
OpenTopicâ„¢ Product Manager
