>From memory, webalizer (and awstats too) doesn't consider it to be a "visit"
unless they request a page. i.e. if the IP requests images only then it
isn't a visit.



On 5 February 2010 15:42, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:

>  So did I. But webalizer says around 13GB of traffic from 360,000 hits,
> and 0 (zero) visits.
>
> More stats I have picked up:
>
> 1. 97% of file requests are JPEGs
> 2. There are 3 images, all realated to a listing in the system, that have
> been hit evenly around 48,000 times and equate to a total of around 4GB
> each.
> 3. These three images account for 95% of all traffic.
>
> So I guess that's the culprit there. Something hitting those images over
> and over again. But they aren't the sort of images anyone would want to
> hotlink. And neither IP resolves to a website.
>
> I have blocked the IPs for now, and sent an email to Xtra's abuse team to
> see what they say.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Stu Meads <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Friday, February 05, 2010 2:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [phpug] [OT] Xtra eating bandwidth
>
> That sounds weird, I always thought that webalizer stats were generated
> from the Apache logs
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  The interesting thing is that both IP's appear in Webalizer stats, but
>> not in either FTP or Apache raw logs.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* gizmoguy <[email protected]>
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 05, 2010 10:41 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [phpug] [OT] Xtra eating bandwidth
>>
>> On 5 February 2010 10:26, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  Howdy, I was wondering if anyone else has strange log entries for these
>>> two IPs recently:
>>>
>>> 219.89.117.251
>>> 210.54.90.144
>>>
>>
>> Not those IPs but we've had a lot of traffic from 146.171.254.96 which is
>> another Telecom IP address which has done 256.33 MB of bandwidth so far this
>> month from one of our webapps which is proportionally a lot of bandwidth for
>> us.
>>
>> We identified the problem with this particular IP address using a lot of
>> bandwidth due to a lack of gzip support, we suspect it is a
>> coroprate/enterprise proxy/filtering server that ignores gzip to make it
>> less CPU heavy when it comes to filtering which results in us sending out
>> the uncompressed version of all our pages and JS/CSS which turns out to be
>> quite a lot.
>>
>> Haven't attempted to make contact with them yet but if you report back
>> with your dealings with Telecom and we may also get in contact with them.
>>
>> Brad
>>
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