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Re: Hit every minute

eddieawad — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:25:21 -0000

Kev, I have received your off-comment message. No harm done so no worry. That also explains Pete's wondering about why there was no referrer URL.

Thank you for letting me know it was you, a legitimate reader of my blog. I appreciate it. I will be removing the restriction on your IP address, just in case you want to come by later.

Re: Hit every minute

Big Kev — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:07:15 -0000

I've posted a response to Eddie off comment, but to put your mind at rest you can see that the browser is OPera 8.5 which has a cool feature to refresh a page every minute / 5 / 10 etc.

I used it for a forum I was using and it looks like I may have reused the window without reseting it from weblogs.macromedia.com and left it running in the background while I was working.

I do aplogise and no harm was meant.

Cheers.

Re: Hit every minute

eddieawad — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:48:08 -0000

Pete, thanks for the link, it is very useful. I have been using http://www.dnsstuff.com/ for such things.

Certainly, one hit a minute should not be a threat to a web server but still is annoying. 30,000 hits/day, now that's **very** annoying, unless they are from legitimate users :)

Thanks and good luck to you too.

Re: Hit every minute

Pete Finnigan — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:08:14 -0000

Hi Eddie,

You can check with http://www.completewhois.com to see who the guy is. Although it is annoying, one hit per minute is nothing. I was hit 20,000 times per day recently for a few days from different IP addresses and also a couple of weeks ago 30,000 hits in one day from another.

It seems odd that your guy has no referrer URL which is the normal method for referral spammers. They tend to spam sites that do not publish referrers such as mine because they don't check, they use a scatter gun approach. The fact that your guy has no referrer URL makes me think it might be a technical issue his end?

good luck Eddie, hope you don't get too much of this.

Re: Hit every minute

eddieawad — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:11:45 -0000

Tom, I use StatCounter.com for my real time web stats. I find it to be the best among similar services.

My [web host](http://www.bluehost.com/) has an option to block all traffic from specific IP addresses or an IP range. I used this option to block this IP entirely.

As far as protecting my network at home, I have a router (that acts as a hardware firewall) and Norton Internet Security (as a software firewall). I cannot imagine a home PC without a firewall, you'll be hacked in no time, especially if you have an always-on Internet connection (like cable or DSL).

Re: Hit every minute

Tom_Fox — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:32:46 -0000

Sorry for the double commenting, but I thought I'd mention that you may want to block this IP entirely to anything on your subnet. I keep getting hit by people trying SSH, FTP, and every other protocol known to man. I ended up running a firewall on the Linux box as well. Layered security can be painful, but it is a necessity these days.

Re: Hit every minute

Tom_Fox — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:31:08 -0000

Is that some free reporting software?