dns-ish question.

        So I'm super paranoid guy and I always keep a pretty close eye on my httpd logs... when I encounter this strange entry. (or at least I think it's strange). I get an entry that says :

name.domain.tld - - [28/May/2003:01:40:09 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 0

I'm guessing the entry itself implys the end person is poking around, looking for misconfigurations, et al... but the strange part to me is I can not lookup name.domain.tld. Is this some sort of misguided... idea of security? I could do a reverse lookup to log, but...? it seems very flakey to me.

I thought it was perhaps a misconfiguration for this particular site, but today a friend of mine has a very similar sort of log entry, only with a doj.gov domain. Any thoughts?
thanks.

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                                             - Zep
                                      (zep@nemesis.mmind.net)

Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?

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