I was going through my AWStats and have noticed that I am getting a lot of hits from 64.62.168.x IP addresses.
A WHOIS reveals the host to be Hurricane Electric
Can someone provide me more information on the same?
Anybody know what Hurricane Electric really is and why I could be receiving such hits from them?
I am thinking of blocking the entire range of IP address
"!Anybody know what Hurricane Electric really is"
Have you tried searching ?
I did, Its some kind of hosting etc company.
I posted the link I got from college
from their about us page:
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Founded in 1994, when the Internet and the World Wide Web was just starting to take off, Hurricane Electric became one of the first Business Technical Service Providers (TSP). Today, Hurricane Electric is the premier Business TSP, specializing in technical web hosting, including dedicated servers and colocation. Hurricane Electric also provides direct Internet connections ranging from fractional to full T1's and T3's, all the way up to WDM and 10 GigE.
Hurricane Electric was started when founder and President Mike Leber saw a need for technical web hosting. With the limited number of web hosting companies at the time, Mike took the opportunity to do it better. Hurricane Electric has since become a pioneer in the web hosting industry.
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may be someone is using a proxy?
I went through my raw access log and found out that it seems to give a header of Gigabot, which on searching threw up http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html
Blocked it in my robots.txt file. Let's see how things work out.
hope it works. but some spiders never follow robots.txt file. I hate those engines.
Quite what this has to do with WP is beyond me.
podz, anything posted dosent have to be wordpress.
For many many people this forum is something they find most helpful. If you ask something, it dosent have to 100% wordpress related. I feel it is ok untill it is not a spam ad.
When it says "All-internet-problems-solved.org" I will agree.
I've just had 2 hours of router problems ? Should I post here ?
I've had domain problems - what about them ?
My ISP - good enough ?
This is a WORDPRESS forum for WORDPRESS problems.
Or maybe when you post with a wordpress problem and it's washed away in the stream of non-wp posts you won't mind ?
NOTE: This post was made to the How-to and Troubleshooting forum. I moved it here.
comeon man. its nice of you that you moved it to this forum.
but you know you did it because he is asking something regarding to his wordpress blog. anyway, i agree with you totally that only wordpress related stuff has to be talked but other things come along because we all come here to talk something related to our site on which wordpress is installed even if its not something related 100% to wordpress. podz, please note that i dont want to fight or argue with anyone man. people here are my wordpress buddies. i have a great respect for all you guys supporting other people.
swordfish - with respect, he's asking about something he found in his stats. That is hardly WP. Also, the OP asks if anyone knows anything about something he has already found out about - and webmasterworld or Google Groups would have been more relevant.
I think these forums are good, but to be good they need to retain a focus - and that is lost once we start answering anything and everything. We already miss posts - so threads like this just make that worse.
I'm only one person in this though :)
I agree, webmasterworld would be the right place to talk about that.
I am sure this forum is glad to have you here.
Many times i keep thinking this: one way or the other, if people get to know you and you know them, they will get good help next time they are here. Now i think, next time i get a problem, i wont be surprised to see you reply.
Its was nice talking to you man.
Have a nice time.
I have to leave home now. going to a movie now :)
this is the movie: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/salaamnamaste/
Thanks for pointing me to Webmasterworld and sorry I posted in the wrong forum.
the question was not directly related to WP, but the site that is effected is my blog running WP and I was seeing if there was a way I could use WP to help curb the bandwidth that has been draining because of the SearchBOT.
Thanks for your time.
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