On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> (I thought the answers to the other questions were kind of obvious)
What is the obvious answer to Jef's problem (why is
his server suddenly getting [whole] lot of hits from
DoCoMo phones)?
> 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). [...]
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Received on Tue Aug 14 17:06:36 2001