Apache under attack and eating resources?

[Avleen Vig]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
> This might be more related to an Apache-security list, but as the machine is
> running FreeBSD, I thought I'd ask here first.
> 
> In the last two weeks, I've been seeing some very strange errors in my logs a
> few times daily around the same times.  While this happens, load averages go
> through the roof (I've seen 36+, which is outragous), and the machine becomes
> very unresponsive.
> 
> First there's a few million of these:

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Are you running any CGI's, or other server-side scripts? Bugs in your
scripts could cause things like this, and make it look like it's apache
which is at fault.