Lots of visitors from similar IP's?

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    Lately my site has been getting a lot of visitors at the same time from IP 80.4.244.x

    Does anybody know what this is? Is it some type of bot?

    Edit: It can't be a bot because it only goes to the main index and no other pages...
     
    Bryan, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  2. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    Is that the actual IP?
     
    Crazy_Rob, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  3. Bryan

    Bryan Active Member

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    Yes that is the actual IP. The last number is always different, but the first three are always the same.
     
    Bryan, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  4. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    Looks like a UK ISP
     
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  5. Bryan

    Bryan Active Member

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    Yeah but why would there be so many visitors from a similar IP at the same time?

    Could it be some sort of worm or something?
     
    Bryan, Oct 17, 2005 IP
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    SaN-DeeP Well-Known Member

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    are you able to get some information in user-agent ?
     
    SaN-DeeP, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  7. Bryan

    Bryan Active Member

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    No they're just showing up as users on vbulletin...all the info I have is IP.
     
    Bryan, Oct 17, 2005 IP
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    J.D. Peon

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    Some ISPs use proxy farms (AOL is one of them). That is, when you connect to such ISP, your requests end up on a load balancer that picks the least-busy proxy server. Each one of these proxies has its own public IP address, which is what you see. This kind of a farm really screws up IP-based log analyzers.

    J.D.
     
    J.D., Oct 21, 2005 IP