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Miscellaneous => The Sallyport => Topic started by: Sir Wolf on 2010-08-14, 05:56:35

Title: "guests"
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2010-08-14, 05:56:35: 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
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2010-08-15, 03:05:18: 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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir William on 2010-09-21, 16:49:58: I don't like 'guests'...lol
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Patrick on 2010-11-19, 04:23:56: 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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir William on 2010-11-19, 14:00:04: Hey, that's news to me...I thought it was read-only access for them. lol
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2010-11-19, 14:28:51: 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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Andrew on 2010-11-19, 14:55:22: Yep, I tossed a wrench. My apologies for the misinformation. Thanks Sir Edward! :)
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir James A on 2010-11-22, 19:11:49: Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2010-08-14, 05:56:35
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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2010-11-22, 21:00:16: Quote from: James Anderson III on 2010-11-22, 19:11:49
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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-01-20, 01:00:58: Guest 00:54:39 Unknown Action

odd?
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-01-20, 01:10:02: That is odd. I see one of those on right now, from an IP in Romania. I've blocked it.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Ancelyn on 2011-01-20, 02:33:48: Good idea. I had a bad experience with a Romanian cyber criminal who spoofed someone's ebay account once.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir William on 2011-01-20, 15:08:21: I had a bad experience with a Romanian woman. I'll leave it at that. lol
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-01-20, 15:41:56: Quote from: Sir William on 2011-01-20, 15:08:21
I had a bad experience with a Romanian woman. I'll leave it at that. lol

I detect a story. :)
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-01-20, 16:10:32: i am thinking Romulan ale was involved hehehe
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir William 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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-01-26, 03:23:56: Guest 03:23:14 Unknown Action
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-01-26, 15:10:27: Guest 15:09:48 Unknown Action
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir William on 2011-01-26, 18:10:35: Maybe they're playing with themselves but that would not compute...
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-01-26, 18:44:44: I'd be tempted to block all of RIPE, but they serve a lot of Europe.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir William on 2011-01-26, 19:26:34: Ok, I'll ask- what's RIPE? :)
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-01-26, 21:40:32: Quote from: Sir William on 2011-01-26, 19:26:34
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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-02-01, 14:30:15: BTW, here's a map of the various RIRs (regional internet registries):
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-03-11, 14:06:24: haahaah

Guest 13:54:25 Nothing, or nothing you can see...
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-03-11, 15:18:24: Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2011-03-11, 14:06:24
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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-03-11, 16:04:23: Quote from: Sir Edward on 2011-03-11, 15:18:24
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.
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir James A on 2011-03-21, 16:35:13: Quote from: Sir Edward on 2011-03-11, 16:04:23
Quote from: Sir Edward on 2011-03-11, 15:18:24
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
Title: Re: "guests"
Post by: Sir Edward 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. :)