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Hits From Novell Border Manager

Why exactly would it hit?

         

Grumpus

2:00 pm on Aug 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Greetings!

I've had a few hits in my logs today from a user agent which identifies itself as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BorderManager 3.0)". A little research tells me that this a Novell product that controls security and unwanted intranet content, etc.

My guess, based on Novell's description, is that some boss is going through logs his own intranet to find out where his employees are surfing to determine if access to that site should be banned for his workers.

Is anyone familiar with this product? Is that a likely guess? Is the product used for other things that might cause a few hits on my site? If so, what are those "other things."

TIA,

G.

feynman

9:06 pm on Aug 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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It is, to the best of my memory, basically a proxy server.

jdMorgan

9:56 pm on Aug 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Grumpus,

I've gotten several hits from that one, too, always displaying a "human surfer" page access pattern
on my site. Keep an eye on the user's behaviour, but the UA itself isn't necessarily "bad". I
decided - based on admittedly scanty evidence - that it was a proxy being used as a corporate
firewall.

Jim

Grumpus

10:45 pm on Aug 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Thanks!

Yeah, it looks human to me, too. Just doesn't have a logical entry-point.

G.