"guests"

[Sir William]

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.

[Sir Wolf]

Guest    03:23:14    Unknown Action

[Sir Wolf]

Guest    15:09:48    Unknown Action

[Sir William]

Maybe they're playing with themselves but that would not compute...

[Sir Edward]

I'd be tempted to block all of RIPE, but they serve a lot of Europe.

[Sir William]

Ok, I'll ask- what's RIPE? 

[Sir Edward]

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.

[Sir Edward]

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

[Sir Wolf]

haahaah

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

[Sir Edward]

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.

[Sir Edward]

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.

[Sir James A]

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.

[Sir Edward]

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