Here's another strange one

21

there are now 27 out of the 32 guests with the similar IP’s…

and as EG said, they have been there all day.

Rev

22

maybe they just reall really like Kirupa

23

:beam:

well, he had hate mail today… so why not a love fest.

Rev

24

haha, I’ll ban a few IPs rev =) They may be search engines, and I’m sure they would have gotten whatever they wanted in the past few days they have been around!

EDIT: I just banned all the IPs in that range: 66.196.72.*; one or two bots is ok; 40 or so is not!

25

47 bots currently cruising the forums…

Rev

26

I bet it’s something automated, I don’t think anyone would really like to stare at a login page. The thing is, what’s causing it? Inktomi.com, surfing thorugh the forum and viewing nothing…I can only assume that someone tried to search kirupaforum.com as a whole from inktomi’s engine, something along that maybe.

27

Looks like it is happening from somewhere else…

kirupaForum > Who’s Online

<b>Guest Viewing Attachment in Thread is this a HACKER or what. whast this ? 12:34 PM 195.229.241.228
Guest Searching Forums 12:33 PM 195.229.241.229</b>
Guest Viewing Forum Flash MX 12:29 PM 212.113.164.99
<b>Guest Viewing Thread Movie Quotes! 12:34 PM 195.229.241.232
Guest Viewing Thread Movie Quotes! 12:34 PM 195.229.241.231 </b>
Guest Viewing Forum Flash ActionScript 12:30 PM 165.21.154.9
Guest Viewing Thread Mass Hacks started 40 min ago 12:30 PM 172.140.53.238
<b>Guest Viewing Thread maxi…A box with animation in AS FLMX 12:33 PM 195.229.241.233 </b>
Guest kirupaForum Main Index 12:37 PM 66.131.40.130
<b>Guest Viewing Thread is this a HACKER or what. whast this ? 12:33 PM 195.229.241.235 </b>

Rev

28

That’s my IP, Rev, It’s probably my brother surfing as a guest from the other pc.

29

with 6 IP’s at once?

Neo Trace says it goes thru Dubai, then loses the trace…

Rev

30

That does sound weird with 6 IPs at once, but look at h88s IP, it is exact except for the last octet.

31

now they are all gone…

Rev

32

now there are 7 IP’s with the same basic numbers (including h88), 6 are guests…

Rev

33

Am not sure why’s that happening, but aren’t DSL connections have a Dynamic IP?

34

if you have a dynamic IP, then you should still only have 1 IP for each time you connect to your ISP… then it changes when you sign off, and sign on again…

Rev

35

yeah, (most) DSL connections have dynamic IPs. mine for example is always 138.88.x.x (x’s representing ambiguous numbers). the 88 in my IP would most likely represent my location, or the service’s location, because it is unlikely that Verizon (my service) has a total of only 510 subscribers (255+255=510) in the whole US.

36

but still, it is only one IP at a time, right?

or should I up my medication…

:beam:

Rev