No user ip shows in raw logs?

How to block?

[walrus]

Found this yesterday, no user ip ahows in raw logs.
If i am on a shared host, could i block this in htaccess with allow/deny?

. - - [09/Feb/2008:05:16:11 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2977 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"

[jdMorgan]

Are you hosting this site yourself? If not, contact your host; Perhaps their custom logging is misconfigured, or, if they only "update" your logs periodically, then possibly the script that does that is messed up.

[walrus]

Wow, that was fast JD!
I don't host the site, i guess i will have to call.
Ever seen those characters in raw logs before?
Thanks

[jdMorgan]

No, I've never seen that before.

It is impossible to connect to a server without providing the IP address to which the server is to respond, so this appears to be an error in the logging mechanism -- likely a bug in that process caused by something your host is doing during the "sort one big server access log file into separate files for our customers' accounts" process.

Jim

[walrus]

Thanks JD, Theres a lot of good mods and advice here but you are one of the best.
Hope your traffic doubles!

[wilderness]

for a year 2000-2001 my sites were with a host that did not offer raw logs, rather the logs were generated by a script.
Occassionaly the script would fail and some IP ranges would be absent.

[walrus]

Thanks wilderness!