On Monday 12 August 2013 at 09:18:24, PSA4444 wrote: > We are seeing entries like this in our squid access log: > > 1376290358.781 151 198.2.208.203 TCP_MISS/200 916 GET > http://toolbarqueries.google.com.hk/tbr? - HIER_DIRECT/74.125.237.18 > text/html People (or rather, bots) searching for open proxies... > How can this one even happen: > 1376291144.757 879 216.244.78.166 TCP_MISS/302 1057 GET > http://203.208.46.128/search? - HIER_DIRECT/203.208.46.128 text/html ? The URL (in this case, an IP address) you see in the GET request is not necessarily the same as the IP they connected to... > No idea what this means. I know I could add entries like this by creating > a hosts file entry to point fake.domain.com to our server but surely it's > not people doing this? Bots. Is there a good reason why your Squid is listening on a pub;lic IP address? Antony. -- "Once you have a panic, things tend to become rather undefined." - murble Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.