Server56 Visiting My Site?

[TCH-Tim]

This has just started in the last week or two. In my Awstats I am seeing Server56 crawling steadily up the Top 25 Hosts list. I am on Server56, but why (or how) would Server56 be hitting my site?

[Ayman]

I see you are running MovableType, just a guess here, as I have never used MT before, but it's possible that the script is causing this.

 

Hopefully someone who uses MT will be able to tell whether it's the case or not.

[annie]

If you get trackbacks from someone on that server, then yes, you will get visits.

 

But unless you have very few visitors, it shouldn't go that high on the list.

 

I think you should download your raw logs and grep for the IP number, then see what you're seeing. Check the user agent of the accesses.

[TCH-Tim]

I think you should download your raw logs and grep for the IP number, then see what you're seeing. Check the user agent of the accesses.

Where would I find said logs?

[TCH-Bruce]

Tim, through cPanel in the stats section. "Raw Log File"

[TCH-Tim]

Tim, through cPanel in the stats section.  "Raw Log File"

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Clicking on that doesn't go anywhere. The link is "http://www.example.com:2082/frontend/monsoon/index.html" That doesn't seem right.

[TCH-Bruce]

OK, that should give you a zipped log file. You can aslo look under Manage FTP accounts.

[TCH-Tim]

OK, that should give you a zipped log file.  You can aslo look under Manage FTP accounts.

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That works much better. Thanks Bruce.

[TCH-Tim]

I think you should download your raw logs and grep for the IP number, then see what you're seeing. Check the user agent of the accesses.

This is what I'm seeing:

 

69.93.215.164 - - [16/Mar/2005:11:42:54 -0600] "GET /inc/footer.html HTTP/1.0" 200 311 "-" "-"

 

Over and over and over and over... Footer.html is the common footer for all pages, blog and non-blog alike. Occasionally it will grab some other include for one of my other static pages. Looks just like above, just a different file name.

 

It's not like it's using a lot of bandwidth or anything, it just seems weird.

[annie]

That's very weird!

[Head Guru]

Server 56 has a foot I AM A SPAMMER? Who would have known!

 

Drop in a ticket to abuse, and we can take a peak.

 

Bill

[TCH-Tim]

By the way, I opened a help desk ticket and Alan Ho did a fine job of setting me straight. It was absolutley my bad. Short answer is that the problem was the way I had my PHP includes set up. Alan had some suggestions and I implemented them and it seems to have fixed the problem. Cheers.

 

-Tim

[TCH-Bruce]

Glad it's all sorted out