On Thursday 25 August 2005 12:31, Chris typed: > Noted this in my syslog this morning, is this another harmless error, or is > something borked somewhere? > > Aug 24 21:30:09 cpollock spamd[7745]: bad protocol: header error: > \200__( '$Î__________\206 __\2377____________________\200__( '$Ï__________ > \206¡__\2377____________________\200__( '$Ð__________\206¢__\2377__________ > __________\200__( > '$Ñ__________\206£__\2377____________________\200__(`'$Î__ > ________\206 __\2377____________________\200__(`'$Ï__________\206¡__\2377_ > ___________________\200__(`'$Ð__________\206¢__\2377____________________\ > 200__(`'$Ñ__________\206£__\2377____________________\200__( '$Î__________\ > 206 __\2377____________________\200__( '$Ï__________\206¡__\2377__________ > __________\200__( '$Ð__________\206¢__\2377____________________\200__( '$Ñ_ > _________\206£__\2377____________________ > Aug 24 21:30:40 cpollock spamd[7799]: bad protocol: header error: GET / > HTTP/1.0
I'd guess your spamd is listening on a port that realplayer or similar thought was a web server/audio server (and possibly an MS box based on one record). Is your spamd exposed to the cruel internet, or protected by a firewall?