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WoodiE
Sun 6th Jul '03, 10:21pm
I've noticed from time to time my forum's "who's online" will jump from its norm by about 20-30 more people. At first I thought it was awesome, then I looked at the IP's viewing the site and I'm thinking it's one person.

Such as right now we have 60 people surfing the site, but about 10-15 people have IP's like this (for example)

192.168.255.100
192.168.255.101
192.168.255.102
192.168.255.103
192.168.255.104
192.168.255.105
192.168.255.106

And so on - how is this user using so many IP's at one time? I think the odds of that each IP being someone totally different is slime to none. So how's it done? Is this a possible hack attempt?


-Michael
Scott MacVicar
Sun 6th Jul '03, 10:32pm
It could either be a search engine spidering your forums or a user whose ISP uses a transparent proxy that changes proxy on each page request.
tgillespie
Sun 6th Jul '03, 11:40pm
Isn't 192.168. a local address Scott?

Do you use a proxy Woodie?
Scott MacVicar
Sun 6th Jul '03, 11:56pm
he said for example in the text so i presumed the IP's were fake :)
WoodiE
Mon 7th Jul '03, 1:06am
Yes, to protect the innocent I've used local addresses above.

Scott, could you explain what poxies change from proxy to proxy for each page request?


-Michael
tgillespie
Mon 7th Jul '03, 1:19am
he said for example in the text so i presumed the IP's were fake :)DOH http://www.modtheater.com/forum/images/smilies/tard.gif Need to read full post next time DOH http://www.modtheater.com/forum/images/smilies/tard.gif