I'm pretty sure this is totally normal.  It's just clients checking the contents of the mirror - I wouldn't worry about it too much.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Fakrul Alam <fakrul@dhakacom.com> wrote:
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Hi,

In my CentOS mirror server I am getting huge HTTP request from random
IP's. Bellow are few sample logs:

14.140.162.178 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:13 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.19"
124.7.36.144 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:16 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
124.7.36.144 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:18 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
122.166.231.199 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:21 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
27.251.30.86 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:21 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
122.166.231.199 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:23 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
117.58.244.90 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:25 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
117.58.244.90 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:25 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
117.58.244.90 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:25 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
180.179.39.9 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:35 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
115.112.108.130 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:38 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
115.112.108.130 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:38 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
180.179.39.9 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:40 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
180.179.39.9 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:42 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
182.71.223.79 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:43 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1140 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
182.71.223.79 - - [13/Oct/2012:22:35:44 +0600] "GET
/centos/5.8/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1953 "-"
"urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"

Is it normal phenomena or there is some thing wrong?

Fakrul
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