Hello,
I am experiencing a new issue since recent update from WP 3.3 to 3.3.1 and SP 5 update to latest 7759 build.
The problem I found is connections to the web server to itself from the eth0 interface on the machine. In apache error log, the connections are related to files refered on the Forum where the url is truncated on display.
One exemple of these url is, from here:
The link to http://www.arctablet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/com.arctablet.arctools057.apk
shows as http://www.arctablet.com/blog/…..ols057.apk in the forum.
I have no problem with the truncated display as the link points to the correct place. My problem is that this links is somehow checked and accessed by SP or WP and gives hundred of errors in apache log:
46.105.107.12 – – [22/Jan/2012:17:43:28 +0100] “GET /blog/…..ols057.apk HTTP/1.0” 404 687 “-” “WordPress/3.3.1; http://www.arctablet.com/blog”
This is rather embarassing because these queries comes in hundreds a minute and I can’t seem to find their origin.
I am requesting here as the files not found errors all relate to links from the SP forum, but I do understand that it may not be linked, and may just be a WP or WP plugin issue. I am just relating the problem to the recent SP & WP updgrade.
Are there any background checks on forum posts contents recently introduced in SP ? Do you have any idea or lead to check on the server setup ?
Thank you.
Edit: I made some extra tests, disabling all WP plugins one by one. The issue went away after the SP plugin was disabled and came back when I readded it, so it’s quite obvious the problem has some relation to Simple Press.
Also I just tried latest SP 7781 build, the problem is still there.
For the moment I had to deny these connections thru iptables on the machine, else the server gets satured after few minutes 
