A number of 195.93.nnn.nnn in my logs (each with different nnn values)

[ShawnR]

Learner driver ahead, go easy on me please. (This is the first time I am posting to this forum)

I found many successive entries in my logs, minutes apart, with IP addresses of 195.93.nnn.nnn, where nnn.nnn is different for each log entry. I'm pretty sure this is just a regular user browsing, as it is in an area of my site which is for customers only and has password protection. So why the different IP addresses if it is just one user? Is this some proxy/caching mechanism? AOL? If so, I'd really prefer it wasn't cached as it is meant to only be accessed by customers with the appropriate passwords, so what to do?

Thanks
Shawn

[Dreamquick]

You guessed right - the entire range 195.93.0.0 - 195.93.63.255 claims to belong to AOL Europe (you can check this at www.ripe.net since its a European range) who do use caching proxy farms.

As far as I can remember proxies aren't supposed to cache pages either at the request of the server, or because the page is doing something such as requesting the user enter a password etc. although you never can tell how AOL's proxies are configured unless you can borrow an AOL account for a while to test with.

If you want to delve into the fun that is the working of the AOL proxies (something which I'm not an expert on), then here's a good place to start;

[developer.aol.com...]

- Tony

[ShawnR]

Thanks Tony. For future reference, how do I find out where an IP address is from, if it isn't from Europe?

Shawn

[Dreamquick]

If the European registry was properly implemented then it would tell you where you need to look like the American registry does (mumble, mumble), not to mention they'd let you search from the front page.

ripe.net - Europe
arin.net - America
lacnic.net - Latin America
apnic.net - Asia/Pacific

If in doubt I use ARIN and see what they suggest as the correct NIC if they don't know the answer.

- Tony

[ShawnR]

Thanks

[jrobbio]

I hope its okay to post this. Forgive me if not

ilectric is a good one to use since it checks all the whois registries from the front page.

[wilderness]

"georgegg" who pops in here now and again has a page which gathers all the NIC's together and proides all details on the same page.
In addition for those that get names rather than IP's his pages will back search by either name or IP.

Now if only somebody could tell me how to get ranges higher than 256 lines from ARIN when doing a NET ">" search :(

Don