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[triangleman42]

There are two hosts that keep visiting my site, but they are never served any files. What does this mean?

The two hostnames are: 157.238.46.77 & weboutlook.siteprotect.com.

thanks,
josh

[TeddyBare69]

Do your logs show any files with the urls these sites are hitting?

Have you checked your error log files to see if there is a permission problem or maybe the file they are going for is non existant?

I did probably the same thing you did and tried to hit there url with a browser. I got a blank screen and no google results on the url.

I did find a company name in the whois directory with a phone number if you wanted to call them and ask.
[netsol.com...]

follow the above link and it will point you to the company that owns the domain siteprotect.com .

[mbauser2]

This question would be easier to answer if we knew what kind of reporting system you're using.

There are two hosts that keep visiting my site, but they are never served any files. What does this mean?

I'm guessing whatever reporting system you're using is misreporting HEAD requests. HEAD requests only retrieve the HTTP headers for a page, not the page itself, and therefore register as a "zero bytes served" request in most server's logs. HEAD requests look like this in an access log:

65.214.36.44 - - [01/Mar/2002:05:30:58 -0500] "HEAD /news.groups.reviews/alt.fiction.original/1.html HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves)"

See? The "0" after the "200" is the bytes served.

As in my example, most agents making HEAD requests are robots, because HEAD requests can verify a page exists (and its last modification time) without grabbing the whole file. I can't get siteprotect.com to load right now, but I'm guessing it's one of the site-monitoring bots hitting your site on a regular basis.