Who is hitting my blog all the time?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by KenYN, Apr 30, 2008.

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    My new blog has been racking up a silly amount of hits from 203.97.237.234. I think I correctly traced it down to a New Zealand ISP, but I didn't get a reply when I sent an email to the abuse address in the whois record, namely

    The particular hits look like this:

    
Host: 203.97.237.234	 		/
	Http Code: 403	Date: Apr 30 08:54:27	Http Version: HTTP/1.0	Size in Bytes: 774
	Referer: -
	Agent: Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)
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    There's a 403 now as I set up Apache to refuse the IP address. I was getting about 1900 hits per day from there, always just requesting the home page and one or two subpages, never the images, etc.

    Can anyone help me with identifying the correct culprit or contact address?
     
    KenYN, Apr 30, 2008 IP
  2. royo

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    #2
    Just because he requested your page multiple doesn't mean you'll be able to do anything about it, good luck with the abuse report...
     
    royo, Apr 30, 2008 IP
  3. boltok

    boltok Active Member

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    #3
    If the agent is Drupal, it could be an aggregation or indexing service. 1900 hits per day isn't really enough to count as abuse and you may want to do some more digging before blocking it altogether or reporting it.
     
    boltok, Apr 30, 2008 IP
  4. Afazelpoor

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    Maybe its a monitoring service your purchased or subscribe to.
     
    Afazelpoor, Apr 30, 2008 IP
  5. mellow-h

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    Second that! This happens very often with tracking services like host-tracker.

    @KenYN: Do you use service from Host-Tracker?
     
    mellow-h, May 1, 2008 IP