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[users@httpd] Weird log message

Hello,

This is the first time I have found the message in the

----[ '/home_www/.Vallendor/logs/access.log' ]--------------------------
[2008-09-05 02:35:32 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
[2008-09-05 02:35:33 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
[2008-09-05 02:35:50 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
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The question is:  What is a "internal dummy connection"?

And of course, my Server is NOT configured vor  IPv6.  Also  I  have  no
VHost named <www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net>.  In the DNS yes,  but  it
is not installed...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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Re: [users@httpd] Weird log message

Posted by Davide Bianchi <da...@onlyforfun.net>.
Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
> Seriously though, while it's not an enormous load, dummy connections start
> creeping out after several weeks- I was shocked that, when I had to enable
>  logging for local requests a few hours, these messages were about 90% of
> the log.

This is why you usually don't log requests from the local machine and
from well-known addresses (like your own home adress).

Davide

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[users@httpd] Re: Re: Weird log message

Posted by Michelle Konzack <li...@tamay-dogan.net>.
Hello Davide,

Am 2008-10-08 14:46:10, schrieb Davide Bianchi:
> You can use conditional logging for that, I do it all the time to avoid
> my own poking to spoil the statistics.
> 
> In a pinch:
> 
> SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "192\.168\." dontlog
> CustomLog /where/you/want/your/logfile combined env=!dontlog
> 
> See the documentation about conditional logging.

I have found this in the meanwhile in another posting here...

Note: I have gotten no messages since 2008-09-26 and not
      they went comeing as batch...  Do not know why.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
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Re: [users@httpd] Re: Weird log message

Posted by Davide Bianchi <da...@onlyforfun.net>.
André Warnier wrote:
> Michelle Konzack wrote:
>>
>> Does someone know, HOW to stop logging from local IPs like <192.168.*>?

You can use conditional logging for that, I do it all the time to avoid
my own poking to spoil the statistics.

In a pinch:

SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "192\.168\." dontlog
CustomLog /where/you/want/your/logfile combined env=!dontlog

See the documentation about conditional logging.

Davide

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Re: [users@httpd] Re: Weird log message

Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 
> Does someone know, HOW to stop logging from local IPs like <192.168.*>?
> 
Turn off your laptop ? pull out its network cable ? kill the bot ?
;-)
More seriously, I'll go ask on another list and I'll get back here if I 
find something.

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[users@httpd] Re: Weird log message

Posted by Michelle Konzack <li...@tamay-dogan.net>.
Am 2008-09-24 15:25:50, schrieb Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski:
> >> How to stop that? And not stop as ignore, but stop as have the server
> >> not
> >> do that (running 2.2.3 for the moment)?
> 
> > Stop google from indexing your site?
> > http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html
> 
> LOL, funny :D
> Seriously though, while it's not an enormous load, dummy connections start
> creeping out after several weeks- I was shocked that, when I had to enable
>  logging for local requests a few hours, these messages were about 90% of
> the log.

Only 90%?

I have the problem, that 98% of  my  hits  coming  from  <192.168.0.112>
which is my Laptop :-)  Google, even indexed the WHOLE website including
pics, videos and other stuff, hit maybe  0.7%  and  the  the  rest  goes
public...

Does someone know, HOW to stop logging from local IPs like <192.168.*>?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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Re: [users@httpd] Weird log message

Posted by Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski <ra...@id.uw.edu.pl>.
>> How to stop that? And not stop as ignore, but stop as have the server
>> not
>> do that (running 2.2.3 for the moment)?

> Stop google from indexing your site?
> http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

LOL, funny :D
Seriously though, while it's not an enormous load, dummy connections start
creeping out after several weeks- I was shocked that, when I had to enable
 logging for local requests a few hours, these messages were about 90% of
the log.

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Re: [users@httpd] Weird log message

Posted by Tom Evans <te...@googlemail.com>.
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:55 +0200, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
> > Close, but no cigar. This is a multi-process apache waking up one of its
> > children.
> >
> > http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/InternalDummyConnection
> 
> OK, a variation to the question: I'm getting that annoying
> 
> williams - - [24/Sep/2008:14:46:03 +0200] "GET //gfx/arrow.gif HTTP/1.0"
> 200 62 "-"
> williams - - [24/Sep/2008:14:46:03 +0200] "GET //gfx/arrow.gif HTTP/1.0"
> 200 62 "-"
> crawl-66-249-71-16.googlebot.com - - [24/Sep/2008:14:46:03 +0200] "GET
> /?img=38&path=/Places/Warszawa/Okecie/Aircraft/Boeing%20737-300 HTTP/1.1"
> 200 4832 "-"
> 
> How to stop that? And not stop as ignore, but stop as have the server not
> do that (running 2.2.3 for the moment)?
> 

Stop google from indexing your site? 

http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

Cheers

Tom

Re: [users@httpd] Weird log message

Posted by Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski <ra...@id.uw.edu.pl>.
> Close, but no cigar. This is a multi-process apache waking up one of its
> children.
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/InternalDummyConnection

OK, a variation to the question: I'm getting that annoying

williams - - [24/Sep/2008:14:46:03 +0200] "GET //gfx/arrow.gif HTTP/1.0"
200 62 "-"
williams - - [24/Sep/2008:14:46:03 +0200] "GET //gfx/arrow.gif HTTP/1.0"
200 62 "-"
crawl-66-249-71-16.googlebot.com - - [24/Sep/2008:14:46:03 +0200] "GET
/?img=38&path=/Places/Warszawa/Okecie/Aircraft/Boeing%20737-300 HTTP/1.1"
200 4832 "-"

How to stop that? And not stop as ignore, but stop as have the server not
do that (running 2.2.3 for the moment)?

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Re: [users@httpd] Weird log message

Posted by Tom Evans <te...@googlemail.com>.
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:49 +0200, Krist van Besien wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Michelle Konzack
> <li...@tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is the first time I have found the message in the
> >
> > ----[ '/home_www/.Vallendor/logs/access.log' ]--------------------------
> > [2008-09-05 02:35:32 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
> > [2008-09-05 02:35:33 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
> > [2008-09-05 02:35:50 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
> 
> 
> "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
> is just the useragent string used by whatever http client made this
> request. A useragent string can contain anything the client's
> programmer fancies.
> This is probably some process on your server that is watching your
> apache server, and that was installed by default.
> 
> Krist

Close, but no cigar. This is a multi-process apache waking up one of its
children.

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/InternalDummyConnection

Re: [users@httpd] Weird log message

Posted by Krist van Besien <kr...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Michelle Konzack
<li...@tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is the first time I have found the message in the
>
> ----[ '/home_www/.Vallendor/logs/access.log' ]--------------------------
> [2008-09-05 02:35:32 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
> [2008-09-05 02:35:33 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
> [2008-09-05 02:35:50 +0200] ::1 [www.cybercenter.tamay-dogan.net] - - "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 197 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"


"Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 (internal dummy connection)"
is just the useragent string used by whatever http client made this
request. A useragent string can contain anything the client's
programmer fancies.
This is probably some process on your server that is watching your
apache server, and that was installed by default.

Krist


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