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Under the Rainbow?

         

SeanL

6:24 am on Jun 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hello, all. Has anyone seen a UA "Under the Rainbow 2.2"? It made a request obviously to my domain, got my root index document, followed three links from it at 4 second intervals, all without requesting any graphics or javascripts. Then a bit more than an hour later it came back asking for index.html in my root directory. That's all it did, as far as I can tell.

I don't see any mention of it on this forum or elsewhere, except in two access logs and, most interestingly, in a guestbook which seems to exist almost only to record UA strings of spam bots. A very interesting idea.

lorax

5:01 pm on Jun 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Do you have an IP?

SeanL

5:34 pm on Jun 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Woops! The IP is 80.58.13.42. I looked it up but it wouldn't resolve. Now I try again and it says:
Host name: 80.58.13.42.proxycache.rima-tde.net
rima-tde.net is listed as being in Madrid.
My browser can't resolve this domain, but it can find telefonica.es, which is the organization of record. It seems to be a Spanish phone company. It looks legit. But its behavior was odd, not quite like anything I had seen before.

GeorgeGG

1:56 am on Jun 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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This is what I have:
Date : 06/04/03 14:15:57 ¦ Wed Jun/04/03 - 14/15/57 PM
Host : 80.58.13.42.proxycache.rima-tde.net
Show Who: 80.58.13.42.proxycache.rima-tde.net
IP : 80.58.13.42
Browser : Under the Rainbow 2.2
Refer :
Host : www.xxxxxx.xxx
VIA :: HTTP/1.1 proxy[AC1E2545] (Traffic-Server/5.5.1-58900 [uScM])
ForFarX :: 80.34.12.87
HttpClientIP:: 80.34.12.87

IP also has been 80.58.13.44 but same ForFarX/HttpClientIP
Almost every day for last 10 days and only asks for 1 page.

GeorgeGG

bhartzer

6:13 pm on Jun 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'm getting the same thing, this Under the Rainbow 2.2. My stats are reporting as a browser. The requests are coming from 80.58.13.107, and it's about 216 requests for particular pages a day.

wilderness

8:03 pm on Jun 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I looked it up but it wouldn't resolve

Looks like a DSL ISP to me although I didn't translate the page.

http ://telefonicaonline.com/on/0,,v%5Fsegmento+AHOG+v%5Fidioma+es,00.html

80.58.0.0 - 80.58.24.255
descr: Spain
notify: adminis.ripe@telefonica.es

Oaf357

6:05 pm on Jun 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Good, bad, or ugly?

It's hit me too and it isn't a browser that does GZIP encoding which leads me to believe it is of evil intent.

wilderness

6:28 pm on Jun 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Good, bad, or ugly?

Oaf,
Either they haven't honored me with their presence or they did and I wasn't alarmed.
Usually my alarm goes off most-especially when there is a solitary line entry in my logs. My procedure is that I do a WHOIS and mark that line as a "snoop," not taking any action at that point.

There was a time when I was denying HEAD requests from future access in order to reduce spam. I no longer do that. Rather deal with the spam in mail filters.

Sorry I couldn't help you.

Oaf357

6:39 pm on Jun 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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No problem.

I just thought it was interesting. No referrer, no images, just a page that wasn't sent GZIPped. It doesn't look terribly evil and there isn't anything that could lead to e-mail spam on my web site.

My concern is bandwidth.

bhartzer

5:30 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I continue to see this in my logs, (under the rainbow 2.2) and it's coming every day and grabbing about 200+/- pages each time.

Oaf357

6:52 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I continue to see this in my logs, (under the rainbow 2.2) and it's coming every day and grabbing about 200+/- pages each time.

Does it grab images or robots.txt? Anything that leads you to believe it's a browser and not a bot.

wilderness

7:20 pm on Jun 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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every day and grabbing about 200+/-

bhartzer
If you do NOT deisire it to continue visiting? Just stop it with htaccess.
There are a variety of ways to do this.

deny from 80.58.13.
will work (were it me however I'd take the entire 80.58.)

SetEnvIf User-Agent Rainbow keep_out
order allow,deny
deny from 80.58.13.
allow from all
deny from env=keep_out

as part of a more complete htaccess will also work.

nonprof webguy

8:56 pm on Jul 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Just to add for future reference:

I saw "Under+the+Rainbow+2.2" from "80.58.13.42" also; It visited twice: On June 21st it requested my home page only. On June 22nd it requested my links page, only. That's all -- not the 200+ pages like others experienced, but without requesting the various images, flash, etc. that are on those pages. Also, both requests were GET, not HEAD. I'm allowing it, for now.