Some TP errors I cannot understand

[IchBin]

I don't have the time to look at that for you Brian. I would suggest however, that you check to make sure your site is set in the Admin > Server settings to be the same as the URL you are surfing with. I've seen the error you just posted about happen when people are trying to access your site with http://yourdomain.com and your forum is set to http://www.yourdomain.com.

[Brian]

OK Thanks I will keep trying to figure it all out.  The part I was most concerned with is it is 3 ip's out of Russia and they are guest not members and it looks like they are trying to get into everything like the shoutbox, activate, modify topics and several others that they don't have any links for they are guest.  In 3 minutes time they would cause up to 90 errors then they would start with another ip and do it again.  They were doing a lot of searches? It is a small site? Most of the errors were because they searched for something that didn't exist.
After I banned the ip's I got 10 pages of errors in 4 minutes of them trying every link possible followed by 6 more pages in 3 minutes of the same thing.
Maybe it isn't a person the ip's are 83.222.23.219, 83.222.23.231, 83.222.23.214 and now this one  217.16.16.218

[Zetan]

Are you sure they are not search engine bots? It's probably not a good idea to just go banning IP addresses unless you are sure what they are.
If they are following links to pages that no longer exist, or have been moved, or are unavailable to guests, they will cause warning notices, or errors to flag up in the error log. Site errors will not just go away, they will fill the logs very fast.. until the error has been resolved, or you turn the Error Logging off.

Posting links to pages that are inaccessible to guests should be avoided.

Spam bots also trawl websites, as long as they are not posting.. leave them alone.

Is your site being hacked? are you having serious problems with spam? If the answer is No, don't worry about it, the site security is doing its job.
If it's Yes, then you need to look into ways of making your site and server more secure. It's probably a good time to consider your site security now rather than later. Also make sure you have full regular backups.

[Brian]

I don't know what they are that's why I posted the ip's.  I thought about bots but don't know.  It happened for 3 days about the same time each day.  If I track them they all go to Moscow Russia?  I run error free except for the occassional password incorrect and things like that until this.  Guest can view everything they just can't post, use the shoutbox and things like that and nothing has been deleted or moved.
I applied the ban to see what happened it just doesn't look right to me then I started getting other links in the error log like
http://www.mysite.com/forum/index.php?amp;action=login2
http://www.mysite.com/forum/index.php?amp;action=tpmod;id=shout
http://www.mysite.com/forum/index.php?action=activate
and a whole lot of others from the same ip's.