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I'm running my company's web site now, but I've inherited a lot of the backend ASP code. I'm new to this stuff, so forgive me! Basically, we have a custom 404 page that sends an e-mail to webmaster (me, if you can believe it!) whenever someone hits the page and is not auto-redirected.
So, some of the e-mails I receive make perfect sense and are quite helpful (informing me about broken links, etc). However, some of them really confuse me. Especially the ones I get everyday that show missing URLs for a valid directory on my site, with an IP address on the end. I.e. here's a typical e-mail:
IP of Requester: 64.68.82.14
Referring URL: none
Missing URL: [mysite.com...]
Maybe twice a day, I'll get a series of these for each directory on my site. The requestor's IP is usually pretty close, and I see that it is Google. However, the IP that is added to the end of the URLs are the ones assigned to our site by our CO-LO facility.
Any idea what may be going on? Do I need to clarify anything? I'm sure my logs would give me a better idea what is going on, but I have no idea how to get them!
my first recommendation would be to look in the server error logs. I assume, since it is an ASP site, that it is a windows server. I don't know much about them but I would think there are logs somewhere.
I would look at the custom 404 page as well to see if it can give any clues as to what those urls are. It seems strange that there is an IP on the url.
You would almost think there would be a referer to that page from some strange place.
See if you can track down the access and error logs and then look for more info in there.
