Stats spike

Steve VanDevender <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
JC Dill writes:
 > A site (located in Georgia, USA) on a service I'm doing consulting for 
 > had a sudden surge in hits.  They had over 40k hits in one day (for 
 > these sites, that's a big surge), all from 66.131.100.81 which resolves to:
 > 
 > modemcable081.100-131-66.mc.videotron.ca
 > 
 > My first thought was that someone had mirrored the site.  But the user 
 > agent was:
 > 
 > > sorted and uniq'ified:
 > > 
 > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
 > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET)
 > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
 > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 
 > > 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
 > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 
 > > 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
 > > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) 
 > > Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
 > 
 > Any ideas what this might be?

It seems like you could figure out more by looking at the access logs to
see what that host was trying to access.

 > I'm not concerned about the traffic from this one incident, I just want 
 > to know if this is a sign of bad things to come.
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