Lots of 408 Request Timed Out from same IPs

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Published on 2012-06-20T01:42:16Z Indexed on 2012/06/20 3:17 UTC
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Web server: Nginx.

Checking our log files, there are many log entries of connections that:

  • take 59-61 seconds
  • send an empty request (or at least none is logged)
  • result in a 408 response (request timed out)
  • do not contain any http_user_agent
  • originate from a limited number of IPs

We are monitoring average times to serve responses and this obviously inflates our statistics. Apart from that though, is this a problem? Any idea why it is occurring? Does it suggest that somebody is intentionally messing with us? What should we do?

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