 | DNS Stuff and Guest Posting |  |
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When I went on the kitchen board this morning I saw in admin who's online that several forums were being viewed (by guest) the ip was the same for all.
I clicked on the IP and it goes to the trace site but when you do the whois you really just get servers I don't understand how you could check out a person doing this once I did see google so knew it was their bot.
I also noticed that under forum location it said "posting a message" well I don't allow guest to post on any forum so is this a bot trying to post and the system just kicks it out or doesn't except it?
in the last 2 minutes it shows logging on viewing profile, viewing memberlist, posting message etc it's all over the board.
I thought maybe it was the other admin but she is not answering PM.
I'M SOOO CONFUSED !!!!!
38.99.13.117
OrgName: Performance Systems International Inc.
OrgID: PSI
Address: 1015 31st St NW
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country: US
NetRange: 38.0.0.0 - 38.255.255.255
CIDR: 38.0.0.0/8
NetName: PSINETA
NetHandle: NET-38-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.PSI.NET
NameServer: NS2.PSI.NET
Comment: Reassignment information for this block can be found at
Comment: rwhois.cogentco.com 4321
RegDate: 1991-04-16
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| Re: DNS Stuff and Guest Posting | |
| Posted: 05/28/2007 11:12 AM |
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Hmm, I don't think I have ever seen that kind of bot.
I get the google and other bots just like you said. Next time you want to look up an ip, try this site. This is what I use and it's much more user friendly for what you are trying to look up.
http://www.maxmind.com/app/lookup_city
When it shows the guest (bot) to be logging on, posting a message, viewing profile, even sometimes looking at forums that you have closed down to people that don't have a certain amount of posts. All that really is happening is the computer bot is clicking on the links. That's what they do, go through pages upon pages clicking on all the links of your sites pages. Since you have a post reply button numerous places on the forum, the bot is going to be clicking on it, and when they do all the get is the log in screen, or whatever screen comes up if you click on something you can't see as a guest. Even though phpBB shows (sometimes tons) of guests as logging in, viewing profiles, ect. they are not actually accomplishing it. I'm not sure why it sometimes shows so many at one time. I just kind of assumed it was because the bot is going much faster than phpBB is refreshing or whatever it's called, so that's why it shows them in so many places at one time.
So i think that's pretty much how it works, I am still pretty new to this stuff as well so this is just how I think it all works. I am still very curious to hear nightrider and everyone else thoughts on this as I could be wrong on some things. |
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| Re: DNS Stuff and Guest Posting | |
| Posted: 05/28/2007 3:28 PM |
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Well at least that makes sence to me. Then whoever this "Performance Systems International" is they have been on the board for a long time today.
I checked one other IP and it came up as MSN according to the link FTM gave me.
BTW thanks for the link FTM. |
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| Re: DNS Stuff and Guest Posting | |
| Posted: 05/29/2007 2:24 AM |
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I am still very curious to hear nightrider and everyone else thoughts on this as I could be wrong on some things.
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I think you explained it better than I could have. I'm no expert on this topic either so everything you stated makes perfect sense to me...
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| Re: DNS Stuff and Guest Posting | |
| Posted: 05/29/2007 10:01 AM |
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Oh cool!  Your very welcome for the Link KeeKee.  |
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| Posted: 05/29/2007 10:10 AM |
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| FTM wrote:
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Hmm, I don't think I have ever seen that kind of bot.
I get the google and other bots just like you said. Next time you want to look up an ip, try this site. This is what I use and it's much more user friendly for what you are trying to look up.
http://www.maxmind.com/app/lookup_city
When it shows the guest (bot) to be logging on, posting a message, viewing profile, even sometimes looking at forums that you have closed down to people that don't have a certain amount of posts. All that really is happening is the computer bot is clicking on the links. That's what they do, go through pages upon pages clicking on all the links of your sites pages. Since you have a post reply button numerous places on the forum, the bot is going to be clicking on it, and when they do all the get is the log in screen, or whatever screen comes up if you click on something you can't see as a guest. Even though phpBB shows (sometimes tons) of guests as logging in, viewing profiles, ect. they are not actually accomplishing it. I'm not sure why it sometimes shows so many at one time. I just kind of assumed it was because the bot is going much faster than phpBB is refreshing or whatever it's called, so that's why it shows them in so many places at one time.
So i think that's pretty much how it works, I am still pretty new to this stuff as well so this is just how I think it all works. I am still very curious to hear nightrider and everyone else thoughts on this as I could be wrong on some things.
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Ditto I know my members used to get quite worried seeing all these guests viewing closed areas but eventually they understood about Bots.  |
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