Hits from 127.0.0.* On my site

[ezeevivek]

Hi All,

For last few days I have been getting lot of hits on my website from IP Addresses like 127.0.0.2 to 127.0.0.9.

I am fearing that these hits could be harmful for my site as there are no more info associated with these hits except the IP addrress in statcounter logs.

I have blocked IP using .htaccess using code given below but these hits still logging.

order allow,deny
deny from 127.0.0
allow from all

Can any one please guide me what are these?

Thanks,

[topr8]

the address range: 127.0.0.0–127.255.255.255

is reserved for 'local' use

eg they are not public addresses but used by your own (host) server/network,

something on the server is accessign your site for some reason.

[ezeevivek]

I have more than one site on that server and experiencing this problem on only one website.

All hits are in the time gap of 2 - 8 mins, with following details:

System: Default Browser (800 x 600)
Location: No Location Info
IP: 127.0.0.2 - No Referring Link

[topr8]

i would bring this issue to your host company and ask them what is happening, as i said they are internal requests - not from the internet as a whole.

[ezeevivek]

I feel statcounter is logging these hits wrong, as per RAW LOG I can match its entries showing IP 127.0.0.4 to raw log's entry given below:

75.126.138.218 - - [08/Jul/2011:04:17:38 -0400] "GET /WEBSITEURL-REMOVED HTTP/1.0" 200 9822 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.1 Safari/533.3"

Can you identify who is this hitting my sites hard?

[g1smd]

The

Qt/4.7.1

part is probably significant.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Qt/4.7.1 is a developers tool, used to help make your project work across multiple platforms. It's not uncommon for a web host to have/use. I'd be wondering about the 800x600 resolution, surely a host has bigger monitors? :)