{"id":6995,"date":"2005-02-08T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/weird-referrers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:59","slug":"weird-referrers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/weird-referrers\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Referrers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any of you out there who run webservers&#8230; Have you ever seen anything like this? It appears to be grabbing lots and lots and lots of images. In tailing the nuxx.net log I haven&#8217;t seen it grabbing anything else yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"courier\">207.155.199.163 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:28:38 -0500] &#8220;GET \/albums\/wallpaper\/collectiveextension_1024.sized.jpg HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 32768 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; &#8230;&#8230;\/1.0 )&#8221;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really weird referrer, and I&#8217;m getting it from a bunch of IPs all at once. I&#8217;d normally say it&#8217;s someone indexing my site, but some of the IPs it&#8217;s coming from are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>207.155.199.163 (UUNET)<br \/>\n12.17.130.27 (AT&#038;T)<br \/>\n65.164.129.91 (Microsoft Sprintlink)<br \/>\n208.252.91.3 (UUNET)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of those reverse, and the addresses aren&#8217;t allocated to any customers, they are just held by the big ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>Seems kinda weird to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Upon more digging, I&#8217;ve found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>207.155.199.163 &#8211; Concentric Dialup, run by XO.<br \/>\n12.17.130.27 &#8211; Traceroute seems to just stop, like it&#8217;s part of some absolutely massive netblock.<br \/>\n65.164.129.91 &#8211; Similarly weird traceroute result. Weirdness after Seattle.<br \/>\n208.252.91.3 &#8211; Another oddly terminating traceroute. Weird stuff starts happening after Seattle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like someone is trolling through my site looking for addresses. Possibly from stolen netblocks? I haven&#8217;t bothered to look up weird routes because it&#8217;s bed time.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE2: It almost seems to be coordinated&#8230; Check this out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"courier\">65.164.129.91 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:46:34 -0500] &#8220;GET \/gallery\/livingroom_speakers HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 15551 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; &#8230;&#8230;\/1.0 )&#8221;<br \/>\n207.155.199.163 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:46:42 -0500] &#8220;GET \/albums\/livingroom_speakers\/speakers_hung.highlight.jpg HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 6193 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; &#8230;&#8230;\/1.0 )&#8221;<br \/>\n12.17.130.27 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:46:50 -0500] &#8220;GET \/gallery\/livingroom_moulding HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 15701 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; &#8230;&#8230;\/1.0 )&#8221;<br \/>\n65.164.129.91 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:46:56 -0500] &#8220;GET \/albums\/livingroom_moulding\/DCP_0920.highlight.jpg HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 6225 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; &#8230;&#8230;\/1.0 )&#8221;<br \/>\n65.164.129.91 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:47:05 -0500] &#8220;GET \/gallery\/livingroom_painting HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 52236 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; &#8230;&#8230;\/1.0 )&#8221;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a distinct set of addresses are rummaging through my site, one request per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of you out there who run webservers&#8230; Have you ever seen anything like this? It appears to be grabbing lots and lots and lots of images. In tailing the nuxx.net log I haven&#8217;t seen it grabbing anything else yet. 207.155.199.163 &#8211; &#8211; [08\/Feb\/2005:23:28:38 -0500] &#8220;GET \/albums\/wallpaper\/collectiveextension_1024.sized.jpg HTTP\/1.0&#8221; 200 32768 &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-nuxxnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14634,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/14634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}