IP: comments on looking for pro-Sklyarov pages?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:08:20 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: John Young <jya () pipeline com>
> Subject: Re: IP: U.S. DoD [seems to be djf] looking for pro-Sklyarov
>   pages?
>
> Responding to Mark Bialkowski's message:
>
> > 198.26.123.36 - BU-WCS1-KELLY.NIPR.MIL
> >
> > 198.26.123.37 - BU-WCS2-KELLY.NIPR.MIL
>
> It looks as though the Inktomi Search bot is looping.
>
> Kelly.nipr.mil (Kelly AFB in San Antonio, TX, I believe)
> has wide variety of comsec and compsec training facilities
> for all the military services and some law enforcement
> agencies and thousands of youngsters eager to peer at
> with their future career opportunities through Sklyarov's
> looking glass.
>
> We see these addresses and others prowling the net
> with Inktomi as well as a crowd of obnoxious spiders,
> bots and siphons which appear to be laxly supervised
> or configured.
>
> We get hundreds of such dumb repetitions a day from
> idiot bots, and have had to block many dozens addresses
> from which they originate -- appeals to sysadmins do
> little good for the bots are run by individuals who seem
> to have no clue the trashing their programs are doing.
>
> Sure, it could be a deliberate attack but probably not.
> Though when you see several dozen of these bots taking
> over your site it sure feels like an assault.
>
> We've had good responses from .mil administrators
> when a military machine is misbehaving, except for those
> seemingly located at ncsc.mil which are run from nobody
> knows where doing the unknowable.



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