Subj : Apache and Port 80 hits?
To   : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Oct 28 2001 01:55 am

I also learned this, Johnathan,

 JdBP> They aren't necessarily spoofed.  Many companies 
 JdBP> simply don't bother setting up the IP address to 
 JdBP> name mappings in the DNS.  Others don't set them up 
 JdBP> for privacy reasons.

from the tracerte I did trying to figure out why it was taking me two minutes 
to load www.debka.com here.  A tech and I were trying to figure out how in the 
blazes my NS 4.61 was taking down the whole neighborhood router to as much as 
four (4) second ping times when all I did was log on to it!

It whams my CPU up to the peg, and apparently loads the neighborhood cable 
router up to the hilt at several points during the load of the site.  Yet there 
is no traffic passing across the modem when this takes place.

We both have a big question about this.

One of the hops in the tracerte on it has a pure numeric octet address that 
will not translate to a name just after mae-w(est) becomes involved in the 
relationship!

I'll take this question though to a new thread..


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