Hey Michael, the NPR connection is an interesting one.  I do have one link
on one page that does link back to npr.org.

Blake, the site has been around for 3+ years, and I've never seen anything
like this...


Thanks,
Mark
http://markphillip.com



On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Blake Freeburg <[email protected]> wrote:

>  a) new startup?
> b) welcome to botnets
>
> blake
>
> On 6/3/2010 5:29 PM, Mark Phillip wrote:
>
> Evening folks,
>
> I have pretty high expectations for the Refresh Austin list whenever I have
> a tough question, but I might have found one stump-worthy.
>
> A couple months ago I started seeing requests in my web server access log
> for "/ombudsman".  I don't have an Ombudsman page, so it returned a 404.
> Digging a little deeper, the same IP was repeatedly searching for the same
> set of non-existent pages on my site:
>
> /about/privacypolicy.html
> /about/termsofuse.html
> /audiohelp/progstream.html
> /blogs
> /corrections
> /email
> /help
> /help/communityfaq.html
> /music
> /ombudsman
> /podcast
>
> After a bit more digging, I realized that it wasn't coming from just one IP
> address.  Turns out there are dozens of IP addresses all requesting the same
> non-existent URLs.  Each IP is scattered across the globe without any common
> thread.  The only user-agent listed in each request is a member of the
> "Java/1.6.0" family.
>
> I am 100% stumped on this one.  All Googling for community-sourced
> Java-based search spiders comes up completely empty.
>
>
> Any thoughts?  Solve this and I'll buy you a beer on Tuesday.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
> http://markphillip.com
>
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