Folks,
I recently saw the follwing posting on the RISKS
Digest. I figured this forum may have a better answer
to this phenomemon taking place to acme.com in the US!
Siddhartha Arora
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source: RISKS Digest @ http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:22:14 -0700
>From: Jef Poskanzer <jef@acme.com>
To: thttpd@bomb.acme.com
Subject: [THTTPD] DoCoMo and thttpd
Hey, is anyone on the list familiar with DoCoMo?
Apparently it's a type of cell-phone / web browser
device from Japan. I have suddenly started getting a
[whole] lot of hits to
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ with various
versions of DoCoMo in the user-agent field.
Unfortunately the referrer field is blank, which makes
it difficult to figure out why this is happening.
Current working theory is that some server run by the
DoCoMo company switched over to using thttpd, and I'm
getting the usual spillover from any 404 pages on
their site. I've seen this effect before with large
ISPs, but never with such a high volume of hits. My
bandwidth is pegged to the throttle right now, and
they're not even fetching the inline images (which by
the way means I'm not getting any ad impressions from
these hits, which is somewhat annoying). [...]
Jef Poskanzer jef_at_acme.com http://www.acme.com/jef/
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Received on Tue Aug 14 14:29:49 2001