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Eros Olmi Member	posted February 24, 2006 10:17 AM Looking at my web stats, I had a lot of contacts from ASSERTIVENET Does someone knows what ASSERTIVENET is? Is it a web spyder? IPs from ASSERTIVENET are eating a lot of my web bandwidth!! ------------------ eros.olmi@thinbasic.com www.thinbasic.com "If PowerBasic doesn't have the solution, then you've got the wrong problem." IP: Logged
Marc Doigny Member	posted February 24, 2006 10:38 AM Hello Dino 2004 Membro Junior! It could be referer-spam. If you publish your server stats online, chances are that your logs will be infected by referer-spam. Spammers look in google for give-away words like 'site statistiscs', 'top referers' and so on (the wording you would normally find on a Webalizer statistic) When the spammers find such a site, they cause bugus page requests with their domain as referer. The server software will records these requests and show them in the logs. What did the spammers gain? An 'organic' link from a webserver that is rated in Google. When Google will index the site next, it will see these spam links and will count them as valid, increasing the spammer's rating. More info http://afr_upd.verfaillie.be:20800/svt/seo/referer.htm You can mail me your logs and i'll check if you could have a problem. ------------------ marc@verfaillie.be www.verfaillie.com www.idemdito.org Home server [This message has been edited by Marc Doigny (edited February 24, 2006).] IP: Logged
Mike Stefanik Member	posted February 24, 2006 10:49 AM A Google search shows that a lot of people are asking the same question. More activity than a normal user, but not enough to be really construed as a DoS attack. Right now, it doesn't look like anyone knows exactly what's going on. You could always just setup your system to reject any connections from that IP block. Assertivenet (Assertive Networks) looks like it's a service provider of some sort. Edit: Marc is probably right. ------------------ Mike Stefanik www.catalyst.com Catalyst Development Corporation [This message has been edited by Mike Stefanik (edited February 24, 2006).] IP: Logged
Knuth Konrad Member	posted February 24, 2006 11:06 AM Yes, seems like Marc's on the right track: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=assertivenet+group%3Aabuse&qt_s=Search Knuth ------------------ http://www.softAware.de IP: Logged
Eros Olmi Member	posted February 24, 2006 11:08 AM Problem is that is not a single IP but a big class of IPs. This is just an example: http://www.thinbasic.com/assertivenet.jpg I will try to block all IPs 66.154.000.000 Thanks Eros ------------------ eros.olmi@thinbasic.com www.thinbasic.com "If PowerBasic doesn't have the solution, then you've got the wrong problem." IP: Logged
Eros Olmi Member	posted February 24, 2006 11:35 AM ---removed [This message has been edited by Eros Olmi (edited February 24, 2006).] IP: Logged

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