Question
unknown traffic coming into my site
- Posted on February 24, 2025
- WebsitesDevOpsApplication Development
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I have a server running, Django and Python and get this in my error and project log files: I see this in my error logfile on the site:
django.core.exceptions.DisallowedHost: Invalid HTTP_HOST header: ‘www.mexquotesheettechs.com’. You may need to add ‘www.mexquotesheettechs.com’ to ALLOWED_HOSTS. ERROR 2025-02-24 22:46:40,880 exception Invalid HTTP_HOST header: ‘www.crmyypoliticallawyer.org’. You may need to add ‘www.crmyypoliticallawyer.org’ to ALLOWED_HOSTS. Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/ProjectData-Platform/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py”, line 55, in inner response = get_response(request) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/ProjectData-Platform/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/deprecation.py”, line 133, in call response = self.process_request(request) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/ProjectData-Platform/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/middleware/common.py”, line 48, in process_request host = request.get_host() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “/home/ProjectData-Platform/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/http/request.py”, line 151, in get_host raise DisallowedHost(msg) django.core.exceptions.DisallowedHost: Invalid HTTP_HOST header: ‘www.crmyypoliticallawyer.org’. You may need to add ‘www.crmyypoliticallawyer.org’ to ALLOWED_HOSTS.
all different site traffic which generate this in my project log file:
File “/home/ProjectData-Platform/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/http/request.py”, line 151, in get_host raise DisallowedHost(msg) django.core.exceptions.DisallowedHost: Invalid HTTP_HOST header: ‘www.crmyypoliticallawyer.org’. You may need to add ‘www.crmyypoliticallawyer.org’ to ALLOWED_HOSTS. WARNING 2025-02-24 22:46:42,664 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:46:43,498 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:01,322 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:05,862 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:13,879 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:37,210 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:38,660 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:39,339 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:49,013 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:49,346 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:57,944 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:58,393 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:47:59,377 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:01,132 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:02,768 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:03,514 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:12,648 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:19,114 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:20,258 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:28,794 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:29,940 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:31,562 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:34,211 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:39,642 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): / WARNING 2025-02-24 22:48:42,256 log Forbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.): /
I only show a few here but there are a lot. Have anybody seen this and what can I do about it. I interferes with my download of data I do from another server. I get interal server errors, whilst with smaller download no problem ad on my development server, where I don’t have this traffic also no problem
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Heya,
Your logs indicate that your Django server is receiving traffic from domains that are not explicitly listed in
ALLOWED_HOSTS, triggeringdjango.core.exceptions.DisallowedHost. Additionally, theForbidden (Referer checking failed - no Referer.)errors suggest bot traffic or automated scanners trying to access your site.Why This Happens
HTTP_HOSTheaders that do not match your configured domains.Hostheader incorrectly, Django may reject it.Hostheaders.You can specify the allowed_hosts in your django settings.py.
Also, there isn’t much to do about it but to block them using your firewall.
Heya,
The traffic may comes from web-crawlers and also bot traffic from search engines. You can tweak the firewall settings and block the bots or the IP addresses if you believe this traffic is malicious and potential security risk.
Regards