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Miscellaneous => The Sallyport => Topic started by: Sir Wolf on 2010-08-14, 05:56:35
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wow i log in at 2am and there are 17 guests looking. is there anyway a "guest" can not see profile pages? thats what they were looking at
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All that's visible in the profile pages while not logged in is the most public information. Forum name, age & gender if you've entered them, website address if you've entered it, last login date, and not much else.
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I don't like 'guests'...lol
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When did guests get to start posting? A guest posted on the "comments/criticisms of the Order's webpage" thread today. I don't mind that this person posted, I just didn't know guest could.
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Hey, that's news to me...I thought it was read-only access for them. lol
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Yep, it's still read-only for guests. What happened was that he accidentally deleted his own account after posting, while trying to change his username, so that's why it shows as a guest (the account no longer exists). He's re-registered now.
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Yep, I tossed a wrench. My apologies for the misinformation. Thanks Sir Edward! :)
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wow i log in at 2am and there are 17 guests looking. is there anyway a "guest" can not see profile pages? thats what they were looking at
I'm not sure exactly how the forum is configured, but it's possible some of them were search engine spiders pooling info.
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I'm not sure exactly how the forum is configured, but it's possible some of them were search engine spiders pooling info.
I suspect some of them are. I think there's probably also some search-engine users that pass through while searching for something related to knights or armor.
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Guest 00:54:39 Unknown Action
odd?
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That is odd. I see one of those on right now, from an IP in Romania. I've blocked it.
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Good idea. I had a bad experience with a Romanian cyber criminal who spoofed someone's ebay account once.
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I had a bad experience with a Romanian woman. I'll leave it at that. lol
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I had a bad experience with a Romanian woman. I'll leave it at that. lol
I detect a story. :)
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i am thinking Romulan ale was involved hehehe
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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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Guest 03:23:14 Unknown Action
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Guest 15:09:48 Unknown Action
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Maybe they're playing with themselves but that would not compute...
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I'd be tempted to block all of RIPE, but they serve a lot of Europe.
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Ok, I'll ask- what's RIPE? :)
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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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BTW, here's a map of the various RIRs (regional internet registries):
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haahaah
Guest 13:54:25 Nothing, or nothing you can see...
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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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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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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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Heh. :) It may have gotten better. My logs show it looking at robots.txt. Not sure if actually heeds it though. :)