Well, yes, that's certainly all true.
But there's still a difference between "someone somewhere's doing 10k
requests per month" and "someone in Chicago with ISP xyz is doing 10k
requests per month". The latter post would allow 99% of your users to
immediately eliminate themselves.
One assumes that the main chance is that this is someone with a
misconfigured set up, and in this scenario any of us would presumably
want to be alerted so they could take corrective action. On the other
hand, if it's malicious or just uncaring abuse, the problem would be
harder to deal with.
Paul
PS: I do realize there's an http request log by default, and it's an
interesting moral question about whether keeping such a log but never
looking at it is or is not an invasion of privacy. But if you're not
sure, a simple frequency histogram function (awk?) that went through the
log and listed the top one or two users would presumably maintain one's
moral high ground.
On 2026-09-14 1:41 p.m., Bruce Schuck wrote:
On 9/14/26 10:03, Paul Kroitor wrote:
Sorry, I’m wrong.
Can’t your private web page be modified to report (only) IP addresses
guilty of abusive use?
Then individual innocent users aren’t revealed.
An IP address does not necessarily mean an individual user. And while
one can use arin.net, ripe.net, or apnic.net to identify the ISP that
an address is allotted to, it would pretty much take a warrant or
court order to connect that address to a particular street address.
That still doesn't identify an individual user. Example, I'm working
from a shared office location. There are a few hundred people from
different employers in this building. To web and application servers
on the internet, we all appear as the same handful of source addresses.
Having the stats page only list those methods with huge numbers of
hits, is not the reason I am keeping track.
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