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Re: "guests"
« Reply #15 on: 2011-01-20, 16:34:30 »
LOL

I said it for effect...truth is, if I ever met one, I would definitely have a story to tell!  Sadly, my experience has been almost decidedly American when it comes to women.  lol

I shouldn't jest, I have no complaints.
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #16 on: 2011-01-26, 03:23:56 »
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #17 on: 2011-01-26, 15:10:27 »
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #18 on: 2011-01-26, 18:10:35 »
Maybe they're playing with themselves but that would not compute...
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #19 on: 2011-01-26, 18:44:44 »
I'd be tempted to block all of RIPE, but they serve a lot of Europe.
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #20 on: 2011-01-26, 19:26:34 »
Ok, I'll ask- what's RIPE?  :)
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« Reply #21 on: 2011-01-26, 21:40:32 »
Ok, I'll ask- what's RIPE?  :)

Oh sorry, it's one of the main IP registrars for the net, serving parts of Europe, Asia, and the middle east. Most of the time that I end up manually blocking IPs from hitting the server, they are somewhere in a region served by RIPE.
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #22 on: 2011-02-01, 14:30:15 »

BTW, here's a map of the various RIRs (regional internet registries):

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Re: "guests"
« Reply #23 on: 2011-03-11, 14:06:24 »
haahaah

Guest      13:54:25     Nothing, or nothing you can see...

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Re: "guests"
« Reply #24 on: 2011-03-11, 15:18:24 »
haahaah

Guest      13:54:25     Nothing, or nothing you can see...

That's a strange one. Thanks for pointing these out, BTW. Often I can go look and see that they're coming from Asia or something, and block the IP on the server.

EDIT: I'm looking up info regarding that particular message. I'm trying to see if I can figure out what some of these guests are doing that the login info can't show it.
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« Reply #25 on: 2011-03-11, 16:04:23 »
That's a strange one. Thanks for pointing these out, BTW. Often I can go look and see that they're coming from Asia or something, and block the IP on the server.

EDIT: I'm looking up info regarding that particular message. I'm trying to see if I can figure out what some of these guests are doing that the login info can't show it.

Did some digging. Looks like this IP was a crawler called Exabot, which is the crawler for the Exalead search engine. It's a poorly designed one, in that it ignores "robots.txt" and defies other best-practices. Sure enough, the logs show it slogging through the indexes on the forum. But it's also been poking through every available link, like the new-user registration, user profiles, etc. It almost looks like it got stuck, hitting the same links repeatedly. So not really a big deal, it just looks suspicious.

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Re: "guests"
« Reply #26 on: 2011-03-21, 16:35:13 »
That's a strange one. Thanks for pointing these out, BTW. Often I can go look and see that they're coming from Asia or something, and block the IP on the server.

EDIT: I'm looking up info regarding that particular message. I'm trying to see if I can figure out what some of these guests are doing that the login info can't show it.

Did some digging. Looks like this IP was a crawler called Exabot, which is the crawler for the Exalead search engine. It's a poorly designed one, in that it ignores "robots.txt" and defies other best-practices. Sure enough, the logs show it slogging through the indexes on the forum. But it's also been poking through every available link, like the new-user registration, user profiles, etc. It almost looks like it got stuck, hitting the same links repeatedly. So not really a big deal, it just looks suspicious.



If it's ignoring robots, it's growing too complacent and powerful for it's own good, and must be dealt with. :D
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Re: "guests"
« Reply #27 on: 2011-03-21, 17:47:38 »

Heh. :) It may have gotten better. My logs show it looking at robots.txt. Not sure if actually heeds it though. :)
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