August 07, 2002
Bad guys on the web

I caught this ip address going through my site today:

Name: MTL-ppp-154163.qc.sympatico.ca
Address: 65.94.40.185

Example:
65.94.40.185 - - [07/Aug/2002:18:26:34 -0700] "GET /blog/archives/000004.html HTTP/1.1" 200 5618 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"

At a rate of about 60+ requests a minute...

Hmm, dial-up ip, identified as Java 1.3.1 (home grown, obviously) requesting my pages at this rate.. I'd say it's someone up to no good.. I'm guessing it could be a spammer looking for e-mail addresses.

I denied him access.. either a bad guy or a complete moron.. If you're trying to spider a site, you do not flood it with requests!


Time to put in an automated script that will take care of this for me in the future..

Posted August 07, 2002 09:36 PM in Geek Stuff
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