Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Emilio I was hoping it might be something innocent. I renamed the pic and it has diminished. I'd love to know who might be using my measly site as a reference! I'll do some more research I guess. Thanks Javier> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:02:14 -0500> From: eperea@walkereng.com> To: lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Internet assault question> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:30:20PM -0400, Javier Perez wrote:> > Yesterday my website started getting bombarded with> > requests for "Leica-m6.jpg" (That makes it an on topic discussion)> > I did a whois search and all the requests are > > coming from IP addresses owned by RIPE in Amsterdan.> > So I renamed the file to leicam6.jpg and I'm hoping it will make them go away.> > But the question remains. Is this an attack or is it just some bozo who pointed > > 1 million people to my site for some reason?> > It's clearly some bozo, but whether the attack is intentional or whose> intention it is, is hard to tell.> > > Is there currently a utility that will allow me to find out who did this?> > > > Here's the log notice that the last entries are 404> > I'm not familiar with this log format, but it appears that the last six> requests are all from different ISPs in Germany. So my guess is that> there was a link posted in some popular German website and this is not> an attack as such.> > _______________________________________________> Leica Users Group.> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ In a rush? Get real-time answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_realtime_042008