My ISP uses Apache-controlled servers. My cPanel Raw Access logs contained
IPV4 addresses exclusively until November 25, whereupon the server software
began resolving those IPV4 addresses to their canonical names. That change
rendered their server data irretrievable, but for the Internet history of the
servers, which I can for the most part still retrieve with Dig (installed for
Trisquel as "DNS Query Tool" (homepage:
http://jodrell.net/projects/gresolver) or with another popular Internet
search tool.
For some canonical names, especially the ones ending in ...example.com, many
Dig resolutions are to 92.242.140.21, which is a UK error handling site,
essentially useless for discovering the original IP address of the site
requesting HEAD / HTTP data from my domain. A few .RU canonical names are
similarly irretrievable or resolve to a number of servers, hiding the folks
who have no other interest in the data on my site, and who are still
attempting HEAD / HTTP requests in spite of being blocked with my domain's
.htaccess file.
As the IPV4's and their servers have been requesting HEAD / HTTP data since
September, 2016 through intermediate .RU, .LV and .NL domain URL's with no
useful results, they are probably pestering other domains also. Apache's
recent S/W change makes it more difficult to track their IP addresses and
servers.
George Langford
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