I hadn't noticed that one, but yes, a search of my log files shows that they
have been at my server a few times...

The 28th, 29th, and 30th of September, the 13th and 26th of October, and the
15th, 19th and 26th of November. But nothing so far in December.

Could it be that they set some sort of program to watch for changes in the
page and then forgot about it? I'm also amused by this sort of thing...

---
James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Blick
> Sent: 2004 Dec 21, Tue 15:18
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [OT:] James: Barred from Piclist.com
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> Are you getting any traffic from 207.44.196.107 also known as 
> ev1s-207-44-196-107.ev1servers.net ?
> 
> A few weeks ago I was looking at the stats for my website, 
> and every minute they pulled one html file (but no graphics). 
> Over and over, the same html file (yes, every byte, they 
> weren't caching) amounting to 40 megabytes per day. I denied 
> them, and they still kept requesting the file.
> They use a faked user-agent string. I reported them to their 
> hosting company, but they don't care. So I redirect them now 
> to a script that feeds them a few characters every few 
> seconds, so now they only hit twice per hour. Although each 
> character has 50 bytes of tcp/ip overhead, it amuses me. 
> Especially since the characters I feed them are the listing 
> of the actual perl script that sends the file, so if they 
> ever read it, they will see it :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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