On Wednesday 18 May 2005 22:16, Tim Shoppa wrote: > > 206.239.35.28 averaged 144720 pkt/hr (sent 201 pkts in 5 seconds). > > I'm assuming this is to port 80? > > The way some pool servers serve stuff up on port 80 can cause traffic > to machines that don't serve stuff up on port 80. If Google finds a > bunch of stuff at http://pool.ntp.org/ one day, it may come back the > next day and try to recursively fetch more content when pool.ntp.org > now points to a different machine!
Bloody strange as I read on Groklaw today about similar google thing. You can tell Googlebot to STOP IT, apparently - one of the many post in the thread: "It is a tag to keep search engines from counting it towards a site's page rank. More information can be found at http://blog.searchen ginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728. It looks like this: <a ref="nofollow" href="http://blahblah.com";> " I haven't tried, as I don't seem to get this traffic abuse* - even though been in the pool nearly a year. Nick * Maybe I do, but it is really unnoticeable. -- "When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, Give a whistle..." _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
