Re: Unfriendly robot at 205.177.10.2

Leigh DeForest Dupee (Leigh.D.Dupee@neinfo.net)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 15:34:04 -0400


Query:All records (ALL):2.10.177.205.in-addr.arpa
Authoritative Answer
2.10.177.205.in-addr.arpa PTR murph.cais.net
10.177.205.in-addr.arpa NS cais.com
cais.com A 199.0.216.4
Complete: 2.10.177.205.in-addr.arpa

Query:All records (ALL):murph.cais.net
Authoritative Answer
Name does not exist
Complete:NO_DATA murph.cais.net

Best I can come up with!

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