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RE: Weird Traffic
From: "Jackson, Ben (ITD)" <Ben.Jackson () state ma us>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:54:56 -0400
On my personal web server, I have been seeing badly configured spiders from China "indexing" my site. These spiderds seem to choke on certain URLs and cause them to keep appending data to the URL. I seem to notice them afterwards after I see 2000+ hits on my site in a single day. I have tried to stop them, but they don't seem to understand "403". I've seen two IPs doing this: 202.108.23.172 220.181.38.82 ~Ben -- Ben Jackson, GCIA - Sr. Security Engineer - Commonwealth of Massachusetts ben.jackson () state ma us - +1-617-626-4575 (v) - +1-617-626-4459 (f) "Security software is no replacement for secure software" -----Original Message----- From: incidents-return-9427-ben.jackson=state.ma.us () securityfocus com [mailto:incidents-return-9427-ben.jackson=state.ma.us () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Adams Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:59 AM To: incidents () securityfocus com Subject: Weird Traffic All, I have a leased server I use to host some websites and for the past week I have been getting traffic warnings. The server has been transferring > 1GB of data per day, which is unusually high, especially since I moved my mail to Google Apps. I have noticed a ridiculous amount of attempted proxying attemptes in my logs, but I do not have mod proxy turned on. I suspect my server is on some list. I firewalled off a large number of subnets from China and my traffic dropped for a few days, then this morning, 2735MB transferred in 24 hrs. As of right now, I am planning to blackhole all China traffic, since thats where most of this is comming from, along with the occasional traffic from France and other places in Eur. Is this common? If so are there any other remedies? -- "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mohandas Gandhi
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- Re: [Pinguzilla] Weird Traffic Jonathan Adams (May 28)
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