[64397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unusual GET requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Tue Oct 21 22:22:57 2003
In-Reply-To: <004801c39837$bc765240$f275f5d1@2mbit.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:57:40 -0400
To: "Brian Bruns" <bruns@2mbit.com>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>, <admins@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 8:59 PM -0400 10/21/03, Brian Bruns wrote:
>68.63.88.173 - - [21/Oct/2003:19:47:49 -0500] "GET /pad-Files HTTP/1.1" 404
>322
>"-" "libwww-perl/5.65"
>68.63.88.173 - - [21/Oct/2003:19:47:49 -0500] "GET /PAD-FILES HTTP/1.1" 404
>322
>"-" "libwww-perl/5.65"
>68.63.88.173 - - [21/Oct/2003:19:47:49 -0500] "GET /Pad-Files HTTP/1.1" 404
>322
>"-" "libwww-perl/5.65"
That's VeriSign's new spell corrector DNS wildcard.
:-)
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