If these files are not referenced by the html code and do not exist and you have that much data transfered, you are under a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This would appear to be outside your control. Again if these files do not exist and are not referenced in the html code, it would quite a few requests to make up that much data transfer... Lyle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramchandra Dhupkar" To: Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:37 AM Subject: [suse-security] apache problem very urgent

Dear all,

I am having a strang problem. I found that in apache error log that a lots of error messages are coming telling that the files b.jpg,5.jpg,6.jpg are not finding. This has nothing to do with that domain (or that document root path) as if i remove this virtual host from apache the same error comes for other domain( i.g showing another path for above missing files) and it goes on. I tried to check for comman ips but i was unable to get it(i tried for around 2000 to 2500 ip's). At the same time i get unique visitors for a site (in awstats) are very less. This very strang and it is increasing data tranfer. (around 1GB in last four day's)

I having a suse 8.2 with apache 1.3.27(through rpm) I already updated system for patches.

So help me to solve out this problem as early as possible.

Thanks Ramchandra Dhupkar

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Ramchandra Dhupkar wrote:

So help me to solve out this problem as early as possible.

Create empty files. The non existing files cause more filesystem lookups. -- Have fun, Peter