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Just a spider or...?
« on: May 30, 2003, 12:30:10 PM »
Yesterday I noticed that one "guest" was always shows as "online", "active" whenever I logged in into ACP. But the "guest" wasnt just sittiong on one page, when ever I refresh ACP screen he was on different location...that was goin on for atleast 20 hours now...
And there is another interesting part is...my Phplogger doesnt log it! and I cant find the IP in Apache access log...
so, I'm wondering is that some kind of a "web spider" or something like that?
I put him in my BAN list, he dissapier, but as soon as I removed his IP, he showed up almost immediatly...
I have traced the IP, could find some info of the location, domain and blah - blah, but now what? Maybe somebody knows anything about such a thing?
here is the IP:
65.214.36.154
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Just a spider or...?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2003, 02:23:39 PM »
Hello V@no,

Had the same problem a few months ago.
It was a different IP but I traced it to turninit.com.
They gave me a link with information how to block spiders.
Maybe you can use it.
www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html

I just blocked all spiders to my gallery-dirs.

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Re: Just a spider or...?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2003, 07:52:44 AM »
Quote from: V@no

I have traced the IP, could find some info of the location, domain and blah - blah, but now what? Maybe somebody knows anything about such a thing?
here is the IP:
65.214.36.154


That was an "AskJeeves" spider.  I don't know if you are familiar with it but it is a very popular US search engine.

Here is what I use to trace IPs http://visualroute.visualware.com/
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2003, 01:01:24 PM »
thx guys for the response.
but still, I'm confused, how come the IP wasnt logged anywhere?
how that could happend? that scares me 8O
well, yes, I've noticed several times, that IP in apache log could be different then in Phlogger or 4images...but this one...
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2003, 02:21:48 PM »
Two things to keep in mind:

1.  Spiders usually do NOT execute any client side scripts like javascript
2.  IPs can change if the visitor, or spider, is operating behind a proxy server