[Opensim-users] Anyone recognise versanet.de or 94.135.203.122

[Shaun T. Erickson]

That's not mine. Mine is the other one he mentioned: 65.78.40.167.

-ste

On 1/11/15 1:15 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
> Ai's log shows a probe originating from the same IP address 
> (94.135.203.122) every minute and a half. If this address is yours, 
> please consider dialing this down. If I see this level of spam coming 
> into my grids, I will block the originating IP.
>
> On 1/11/2015 9:50 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>> As do my gates - hence 24 times a day. That's very low. But if many 
>> people are using a copy of your teleporter or my gate and have them 
>> configured to, say, a popular grid,  then they will of course, see a 
>> lot more than 24 a day. Or maybe there's someone out there who made a 
>> device that checks more often than ours ...
>>
>> -ste
>>
>> On 1/11/15 12:38 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
>>> My teleporting device probes every hour.
>>>
>>> On 1/11/2015 9:34 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>>>> I got that feature from *your* teleport booth, Diva. :)
>>>>
>>>> I don't think my address pinging another 24 times in one day is a 
>>>> lot, really. However, if you get tons doing that, then perhaps.
>>>>
>>>> -ste
>>>>
>>>> On 1/11/15 12:17 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
>>>>> I think it's a lot. Ppl writing these hypergates should be a 
>>>>> little more restrained. There's no need to spam.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/11/2015 9:00 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/11/15 5:53 AM, Ai Austin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste at smxy.org>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What kind of traffic is it? My Blamgates check their 
>>>>>>>> destinations once
>>>>>>>> an hour - perhaps they are doing something similar, but at a 
>>>>>>>> greater
>>>>>>>> frequency? Just a wild guess, though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Shauin, and yes from the port numbers begin used I expect 
>>>>>>> it is indeed some scripts to check for things benign alive or 
>>>>>>> pinging hypergates, etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wondered if anyone recognized the 191 second interval as well 
>>>>>>> as the IP address.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once an hour is not too bad.. and I see four or five such IP 
>>>>>>> addresses one of which might be your blam gate for us.. e.g. 
>>>>>>> 65.78.40.167
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But every 191 seconds means my Robust.exe console is now full up 
>>>>>>> with these debug messages when I check things every so often... 
>>>>>>> yes I know I can turn that down to INFO only being shown..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Samples below...  !!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 08:55:32 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest from 94.135.203.122:63188
>>>>>>> 08:57:53 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest from 94.135.203.122:63260
>>>>>>> [SNIP]
>>>>>> >Once an hour is not too bad.. and I see four or five such IP 
>>>>>> addresses one of which might be your blam gate for us.. e.g. 
>>>>>> 65.78.40.167
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, that's my address. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You think every 191 seconds is a lot? My grid sees one of these 
>>>>>> every few seconds:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> 11:33:34 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:33:37 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:33:40 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:33:44 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:33:48 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:33:52 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:33:55 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:07 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:14 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:16 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:23 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:26 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:46 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:49 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:53 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:34:58 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:01 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:08 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:14 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:15 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:17 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:27 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:30 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:39 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:45 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:35:48 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> 11:36:12 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't see who they're from, however. I'm guessing that was 
>>>>>> added since December 5th, which is the last time I updated my 
>>>>>> production grid (or maybe I need to set something, so the 
>>>>>> addresses show).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Given that my grid has a region that's a popular HG hub, and that 
>>>>>> many people have taken copies of the gate I have out, that's 
>>>>>> configured to bring them to my grid, I imagine that some of what 
>>>>>> I'm seeing are those gates checking to see that my grid is up. 
>>>>>> However, I think the majority of it (in addition to the ~80 gates 
>>>>>> to other grids) is likely to be the "roller-coaster" I have set 
>>>>>> up in that region ... I have 100 Blamgates, laying horizontally, 
>>>>>> up in the sky. There is a gate on the ground, that rezzes you 
>>>>>> just above the first of them, and you fall into it. Then it sends 
>>>>>> you to just above the next one, and so on, until you get to the 
>>>>>> last gate which puts you back where you started. It's quite a 
>>>>>> wild ride that lasts for about a minute. :) Anyway, all of them 
>>>>>> are of the "check the destination" type of gate, so I imagine I'm 
>>>>>> doing most of it to myself. :) Oh, if you ever want to try the 
>>>>>> roller-coaster, look for the gate labelled "101", in Eld2. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What might be nice is a simple way of turning off just this one 
>>>>>> message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -ste