Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:28 pm**

9 guest on as of 1.30 pm today how can we get them to join

offer free frags from the bigtank owners !!!! lol

chad

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:09 pm**

There were 13 the other day.

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:50 pm**

Although they look like guest there is something strange with it. The I.P. address are very close and they are from the same domain. Tonight's was from Albuquerque, NM. I am guessing they are using a proxy server or something to make the I.P. address shadow like that. Even though they look as if there are 8 guest on it is all the same guy.

With all of the PhpBB exploits I try to keep an eye on our guest to make sure it is not our friendly hacker making his return visit.

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm**

snoopdog wrote:Although they look like guest there is something strange with it. The I.P. address are very close and they are from the same domain. Tonight's was from Albuquerque, NM. I am guessing they are using a proxy server or something to make the I.P. address shadow like that. Even though they look as if there are 8 guest on it is all the same guy.

With all of the PhpBB exploits I try to keep an eye on our guest to make sure it is not our friendly hacker making his return visit.

Hats off to you, that is true dedication to our site!

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:09 pm**

Well one just traced back to Microsoft of all places, definitely someone covering there tracks. They also have hopped to about every forum there is tonight. It also says they are posting which is not possible with a guest login. If the forum goes down I do have a backup thank god.

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:11 pm**

Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:09 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:09 pm Alabama Reefkeepers Discussion 64.62.168.21
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:09 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:09 pm Hitchhiker and Coral Identification 64.62.168.60
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:08 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:08 pm General Reefkeeping 64.62.168.41
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Logging on 64.62.168.60
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Posting a message 64.62.168.60
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm General Reefkeeping 64.62.168.41
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Viewing profile 65.54.188.97
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm General Reefkeeping 64.62.168.39
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 pm Logging on 64.62.168.66
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm Posting a message 64.62.168.66
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm Propagation and fragging techniques 69.92.23.83
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm General Reefkeeping 65.54.188.97
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:06 pm General Reefkeeping 64.62.168.39
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:05 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:05 pm General Reefkeeping 64.62.168.62
Guest Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:04 pm Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:04 pm General Reefkeeping 64.62.168.62

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:23 pm**

Call me "Mr Paranoia" I checked our website raw access logs and checked the browser the person was using.

It came back gigabot/2.0 which is a search engine. The reason there are so many anonymous users on is that the search engines are finding us and caching the forum. I guess it is better to be safe than sorry in these matters so let them have at it, crawl the site all you want.

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:30 pm**

So the guests are bots?

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:23 am**

When they have all the same I.P. range, it is a safe guess to say "yes".

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:16 pm**

Thanks... now I can sleep tonight!

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:38 pm**

It is the Gigablast search engine 64.62.168.* range. Also known as Exablast. This sucker will not quit.

Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

lot of guest online today

lot of guest online today