That's interesting I had an access denied error yesterday on D6 from someone who has logged in before and has a valid username. The access denied error says she is user Anonymous.

Katie Legere
Systems Coordinator, Queen's University Library
Queen's University
x75297

From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Fred Jones [fredthejonester@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:20 AM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: [support] Strange access denied Error

I have a Drupal 6.26 site on a VPS. At random, pages return WSOD and no log in Apache. Whenever this happens I see an access denied error in the log from user Anonymous and the URL I just tried and the time etc. 

The hostname there is the IP of the server itself. That's what's bizarre. Also that it's anonymous. I am logged in as user #1.

I can't find any report of this issue. Anyone ever see such a thing?

Thanks,
Fred