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Kitka Posts: 2520 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	Mail server entries in stats - 6/1/2005 21:10:37 I am just perusing the stats for one of our sites and notice something I haven't seen before - numerous visits to a single page (and a few to 2 pages) from lots of different mail server addresses e.g. mail.somesite.com or mail.anothersite.com.au How can a mail server be delivering pages? Is this a form of log spamming or am I missing something? _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.


Reflect Posts: 4769 From: USA Status: offline	RE: Mail server entries in stats - 6/2/2005 13:47:46 Can you post only that line of the log? Take care, Brian _____________________________ (in reply to Kitka)


Kitka Posts: 2520 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	RE: Mail server entries in stats - 6/3/2005 2:42:34 Many thanks for replying Brian. I was viewing the entries in AwStats when I saw the oddity. But I have now been to the raw log file and traced a couple of the 8 visits so far this month that seem to come from a mail server. The log entries look like normal visits from Google, here's one (slightly edited): 202.183.96.83 - - [01/Jun/2005:10:32:58 +1000] "GET /ourpage.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 8920 "http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Page&btnG=Google+Search&meta=" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4" I then did a DNS report on the domain name given in AwStats and the IP is indeed the mail server for that domain. Their NS are 202.83.81.98 and 202.83.94.90. So I guess there is nothing actually suspicious about it, but it does seem very strange. _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (in reply to Reflect)


Reflect Posts: 4769 From: USA Status: offline	RE: Mail server entries in stats - 6/3/2005 12:02:07 You know I never thought about this. When I do e-mail server work in our DMZ I will utilize another mail server and browse when a process is taking a long time that has no interaction. The servers I browse from are registered in our MX record. I wonder how many webmasters minds that has played with. . take care, Brian _____________________________ (in reply to Kitka)