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    Weird error in syslog - open() "/usr/local/www/robots.txt" failed (2: No such file or directory)

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    • M
      Madsurfer
      last edited by

      Hi!

      I'm running PfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE and I see these errors in the log file:
      It's some kind of request to open a robots.txt file for some reason but I'm not initiating this (manually). Robots.txt is used to give the search engine robots directives.

      Is it possible that this is initiated by some kind of browser extention?
      Do you guys have seen anything similar?

      IP:
      192.168.10.x - Lan network with devices and pfsense
      192.168.20.x - Home/Office network with Clients on it. That .112 is my laptop

      error-pfsense.png

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        The request is coming locally, from 192.168.20.102 and 192.168.20.112. It's something on one of those systems, you'll have to look at those to see what is running on them. Beyond that, there is no way to tell from the log what it is. Any number of things could be doing it.

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          Madsurfer @jimp
          last edited by

          @jimp Ok clear. I will monitor what is specifically happens from that IP and dig a little deeper. Thanks for the swift reply.

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