Re: Unfriendly robot at 205.177.10.2

Reinier Post (reinpost@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 17:42:55 +0100 (MET)


You (Nick Arnett) write:
>
>One of my Web servers (http://asearch.mccmedia.com/ last night was attacked
>by a very unfriendly robot that requested many documents per second. This
>robot was originating from 205.177.10.2. I've tried to resolve that IP
>address, but I'm unable thus far. However, a traceroute shows that a
>cais.net router was the last hop before the domain in which the offending
>robot lives, so I sent an e-mail to the postmaster there, hoping that he or
>she will know whose host that is and will forward it (assuming that whoever
>owns this thing is a CAIS customer).

Here you are:

% host 205.177.10.2
Name: murph.cais.net
Address: 205.177.10.2
Aliases:

>Has anyone else encountered this one? It doesn't identify itself at all.

No accesses here from 205.177.10.2 or cais.net.

>Nick

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