Anonymous agent

Does anyone know what this is?

[nickwkg]

One of my main sites is getting loads of hits like this:

194.117.133.4 - - [29/Jun/2001:13:24:56 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 167 "-" "-"

The nameserver changes regularly. Does anyone know what this is? Sometimes it can make up about a third of this sites traffic!!!

Thanks

[Macguru]

The class c lookup shows "cache-bas.cableinet.net" wich redirects to "http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/dial/"

Do you know them?

[theperlyking]

Blueyonder is a uk based cable internet provider, they use a web cache so thats probably what this is.

Dont know why the traffic is strange though, is it perhaps checking if the page has changed, realising it hasnt and serving the page from its own cache.

[nickwkg]

Macguru:
What's a "class c lookup" and how can I use it. I want to check the other nameserver codes to see if they all belong to Blueyonder.

[Macguru]

You can use this at the cost of pop under ad every time you use it. (you can turn off javascript if you dont like pop unders) You just paste the IP, click the button and watch it fly. It will find you the whole c list of IP # ( which is a big bunch )

Here is the address.

[cgi-fun.hypermart.net...]

If I remember well, it is a member of this board who wrote the script. I feel ashamed I can't remember who...

Thanks to him anyway. Very usefull tool.

[nickwkg]

Cheers. It seems that all of these (and I get hundreds every day) seem to be coming from miscellaneous web companies. I guess this must be a caching thing afterall.

Does anyone else get so many of these hits?

[Air]

I get lot's of proxy hits from AOL on some sites, I guess it depends on the audience you are targetting and where they are likely to come from on how many times your site gets subjected to "proxy cache spiders".

>I can't remember who...
littleman wrote that script.

[littleman]

>You can use this at the cost of pop under ad every time you use it.
I am too cheap to pay the ten dollars a month to get them taken out. Some day I'll set up a real domain for those tools, but they won't sit on one of my servers.

[Macguru]

Thank you littleman,

I use this script almost every day. The funny part is when I tried to go at root level to find other goodies. ;)

[volatilegx]

Nice tool, Littleman, very fast!

I also like NS-Batch, which is good for doing lookups of ranges of IPs, textfiles with IPs, etc...

Free download at [jimprice.com...]