IIS 5.0 log file contents question...

I have a hosted web site that is running under IIS 5.0 on
a remote server. I have access to the logs for my site
(s). I have been reviewing the log files and see a
unusual set of entries that I can not fine any information
on. Any help determining what is going on is
appreciated...

This usually appears as a set of three commands as follows:
- a GET for a page as in GET /{page name}
- a SEARCH as in SEARCH /
- a SEARCH as in SEARCH /{bunch of stuff}

The {bunch of stuff} is:
- 269 'A's followed by
- 8 sets of '??{single unprintable character}' followed by
- 33 '?' followed by
- 260 lower case letters followed by
- 3421 'N'

Can anyone tell me what is going on here? What this stuff
might be? I will see this suff in the logs multiple times
a day and at some points multiple times a minute!

I have looked in some IIS books and they indicate that the
SEARCH command is for a news server. I am not running
one. Thoughts? Ideas? Information?

Thanks.

post the "actual" log file entries so we can take a
look...

(initially, it looks like some sort of attack from the
internet. what we want to see is if the attack was
successful or not.)

doug
 >-----Original Message-----
 >I have a hosted web site that is running under IIS 5.0
on
 >a remote server. I have access to the logs for my site
 >(s). I have been reviewing the log files and see a
 >unusual set of entries that I can not fine any
information
 >on. Any help determining what is going on is
 >appreciated...
 >
 >This usually appears as a set of three commands as
follows:
 >- a GET for a page as in GET /{page name}
 >- a SEARCH as in SEARCH /
 >- a SEARCH as in SEARCH /{bunch of stuff}
 >
 >The {bunch of stuff} is:
 >- 269 'A's followed by
 >- 8 sets of '??{single unprintable character}' followed
by
 >- 33 '?' followed by
 >- 260 lower case letters followed by
 >- 3421 'N'
 >
 >Can anyone tell me what is going on here? What this
stuff
 >might be? I will see this suff in the logs multiple
times
 >a day and at some points multiple times a minute!
 >
 >I have looked in some IIS books and they indicate that
the
 >SEARCH command is for a news server. I am not running
 >one. Thoughts? Ideas? Information?
 >
 >Thanks.
 >.
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