I am doing a backlinks check for a huge e shop. I noticed that there are several IPs like XX.XXX.XXX.XXX and mirroring all the site and many links coming the there.
Any Ideas why that is happening ? and how to solve it ?
Thanks a lot.
aristotle
2:02 pm on Nov 20, 2015 (gmt 0)
Have you looked up the IP addresses to try to get more information?
lucy24
9:44 pm on Nov 20, 2015 (gmt 0)
Any Ideas why that is happening ? and how to solve it ?
Does your site have a domain-name-canonicalization redirect? The easiest way to "mirror" a site is to point your DNS at someone else's content. Fortunately it's also the easiest to block.
Apparent mirroring can happen by accident. (It happened recently to someone I know online. Turned out he and the pseudo-offending site used the same DNS, and one site's current dedicated IP was the other site's previous IP.) So always start by figuring out whether it's malign or unintended. The longer it's been going on, the less likely it is to be a mistake.
3zero
1:26 am on Nov 23, 2015 (gmt 0)
This annoys me somewhat as its really your hosting at fault here, they should not show your content on your ip address as I suspect has happened they should show "forbidden page" then the dns exploit Lucy24 describes couldn't happen.
NVentouris
7:52 am on Nov 23, 2015 (gmt 0)
Hi all and thank you for reply, we don't pay for servers, we have our owns servers but none in our IT department knows how to fix it. What can I suggest them ?
topr8
10:10 am on Nov 23, 2015 (gmt 0)
first off have you found out who owns the ip's that are mirroring your site? is it for instance your own ip's.
if they are your own ip's a dirty work around is to have an empty <virtual host> at the top of the virtual host list in the config file (assuming you on apache)
<aside>a huge e shop running their own servers - without someone with basic server admin knowledge seems a little remiss to me!</aside>
