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IP: comments on looking for pro-Sklyarov pages?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:43:16 +1000
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:08:20 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: John Young <jya () pipeline com> Subject: Re: IP: U.S. DoD [seems to be djf] looking for pro-Sklyarov pages? Responding to Mark Bialkowski's message:198.26.123.36 - BU-WCS1-KELLY.NIPR.MIL 198.26.123.37 - BU-WCS2-KELLY.NIPR.MILIt looks as though the Inktomi Search bot is looping. Kelly.nipr.mil (Kelly AFB in San Antonio, TX, I believe) has wide variety of comsec and compsec training facilities for all the military services and some law enforcement agencies and thousands of youngsters eager to peer at with their future career opportunities through Sklyarov's looking glass. We see these addresses and others prowling the net with Inktomi as well as a crowd of obnoxious spiders, bots and siphons which appear to be laxly supervised or configured. We get hundreds of such dumb repetitions a day from idiot bots, and have had to block many dozens addresses from which they originate -- appeals to sysadmins do little good for the bots are run by individuals who seem to have no clue the trashing their programs are doing. Sure, it could be a deliberate attack but probably not. Though when you see several dozen of these bots taking over your site it sure feels like an assault. We've had good responses from .mil administrators when a military machine is misbehaving, except for those seemingly located at ncsc.mil which are run from nobody knows where doing the unknowable.
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