Hey, folks.  I'm seeing a bunch of OPTIONS * requests that are hanging around 
for a long time.  The entries in my server-status that look like this:

3-2     1598    1/211/71054     C       5.93    61210   0       0.0     17.96   
6065.14         127.0.0.1       xxx.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
8-0     30088   1/880/18596     G       2.37    171552  0       0.0     73.43   
1455.55         127.0.0.1       xxx.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
8-0     30088   1/880/18596     G       2.37    171552  0       0.0     73.43   
1455.55         127.0.0.1       xxx.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

and

10-0    -       0/0/1123        .       0.54    427     0       0.0     0.00    
95.22   127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
11-0    -       0/0/1281        .       1.47    523     0       0.0     0.00    
96.53   127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
12-0    -       0/0/1433        .       5.11    435     0       0.0     0.00    
116.47  127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
13-0    -       0/0/1029        .       1.26    494     0       0.0     0.00    
76.65   127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
14-0    -       0/0/798 .       0.35    474     0       0.0     0.00    56.96   
127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
15-0    -       0/0/1453        .       2.36    414     0       0.0     0.00    
111.63  127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
16-0    -       0/0/1420        .       1.86    471     0       0.0     0.00    
103.11  127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
17-0    -       0/0/1106        .       0.53    469     0       0.0     0.00    
79.76   127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
18-0    -       0/0/1111        .       0.41    492     0       0.0     0.00    
82.23   127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
19-0    -       0/0/465 .       0.41    436     0       0.0     0.00    37.14   
127.0.0.1       pnt-web.lehman.com      OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0


There are also a number of much better behaved OPTIONS requests that come and 
go.

Most of what I've seen in my googling regarding this just indicates that 
OPTIONS requests are a) standard method requests, and b) used by apache 
internally to communicate with children to see if they're up and running 
properly.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Eric

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