> To: robots <robots@webcrawler.com>
> From: "Christopher J. Tomasello/WSC"
> <Christopher_J.._Tomasello@hammer.net>
> Date: 29 Dec 95 9:04:46 EDT
> Subject: unknown robot
> Reply-to: robots@webcrawler.com
> Anyone with information on this robot please respond to the group or perferably
> to me ctomasello@hammer.net
>
> There is a robot hitting our web server on a regular basis. It hits every file
> on the server in a very rapid rate (many requests per second). The curious
> thing about this is that the robot is using our IP/domain name to gain access.
> So in the log files it looks like one of our internal servers is hitting the
> site. Also, all the the requests this robot makes are returning 404 errors.
>
> I have heard rumors that the Alta Vista spider is doing this kind of spoofing -
> but I have also heard that it is not. Any information would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
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John Lindroth Senior Systems Programmer
Academic & Research Computing Services
Center for Computing & Information Technology
Medical University of South Carolina
E-Mail: lindroth@musc.edu
URL: http://www.musc.edu/~lindroth
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Any opinions expressed are mine, not my
employer's. And they may be wrong (gasp!)
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