Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?

Thanks for your suggestion, however it's the main home page - the one search 
engines link to.

There's another ip address too, that connected 30 seconds after the first 
one, and they've both been hitting the home page default.htm repeatedly for 
48 hours now.

I'm coming to the conclusion that there's no good coming from these users, 
although it's helping the hit stats a little.  Even if it doesnt hurt us at 
all (apart from small amounts of bandwidth) they aren't up to anything good. 
   So when I get the ok from the client I'm going to block those ip 
addresses and see if anyone calls to complain.

I'll let you know what happens :)

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au




>From: "Rossi Designs" <webmaster(at)rossidesigns.net>
>Reply-To: "Rossi Designs" <webmaster(at)rossidesigns.net>
>To: "Mike Kear" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>, <darrell(at)webctr.com>,        
><hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:50:38 -0500
>
>Maybe you should change the name of the file in question.
>
>Rossi Designs
>(904) 226-8979
>P.O. Box 1084, Holly Hill, Florida 32125-1084
>http://rossidesigns.net
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
>To: <darrell(at)webctr.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:31 AM
>Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
>
>
>|
>| No, and that's the puzzle.  The client's a consumer rights organisation.
>We
>| have some polls that could be used by the consumer rights advocates for
>| their campaigns,  we have some petitions we're asking users to sign, but
>| this user is hitting the front page all the time, not the polls or the
>| activists pages.  And not the shop either.
>|
>| I's doing us no harm that I can see, and I'm content for him to keep on 
>at
>| it.  The only impact is on bandwidth, and that's really minor - we have
>| heaps of capacity before we start to be affected on performance,  but I
>| guess what I'm asking everyone is ... can you think of a malicious reason
>| why this person might be doing this?   do you think I should be worried?
>|
>| Cheers,
>| Mike Kear
>| AFP Web Development,
>| Windsor, NSW, Australia
>| http://www.afp.zip.com.au
>|
>|
>| >From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
>| >To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>| >Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
>| >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:44:46 -0500
>| >
>| >  had allot of friends in the old (BBS) days that used to run a script 
>to
>| >stay logged into role-playing games.  The script would issue repeating
>| >commands to their characters in the games, allowing the characters to
>| >advance in the game while the person was at work all day or whatever.
>| >
>| >Seems like it would be too expensive a strategy from an international
>| >perspective, but if you have something else on your site/system that
>| >rewards
>| >constant user interaction...??
>| >
>| >D
>| >
>| >----- Original Message -----
>| >From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
>| >
>| >It's Media House Live Stats v5.0
>| >
>| >And right now, the package says this about that particular user:
>| >
>| ><ip address>  NET: <name of his host computer>  RDNS: n/a
>| >Origin:   Sao Tome    Time:   641 min   Hits / Kb:    412 / 6298.53Kb
>| >
>| >
>| >So, for now he's been attached in a session for 641minutes, he's hit the
>| >page 412 times, and downloaded 6.2MB.
>| >
>| >A "session" expires after fifteen minutes of inactivity, meaning no hits
>| >have been made on the Web site for 15 minutes.
>| >
>| >So why would one computer want to keep hitting our site  hour after hour
>on
>| >the same page?
>| >
>| >
>| >
>|
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