Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:30:20PM -0400, Javier Perez wrote: > Yesterday my website started getting bombarded with > requests for "Leica-m6.jpg" (That makes it an on topic discussion) > I did a whois search and all the requests are > coming from IP addresses owned by RIPE in Amsterdan. > So I renamed the file to leicam6.jpg and I'm hoping it will make them go > away. > But the question remains. Is this an attack or is it just some bozo who > pointed > 1 million people to my site for some reason? It's clearly some bozo, but whether the attack is intentional or whose intention it is, is hard to tell. > Is there currently a utility that will allow me to find out who did this? > > Here's the log notice that the last entries are 404 I'm not familiar with this log format, but it appears that the last six requests are all from different ISPs in Germany. So my guess is that there was a link posted in some popular German website and this is not an attack as such.