Comments on: How to determine which IP addresses are hitting your web site the most http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/10/07/how-to-determine-which-ip-addresses-are-hitting-your-web-site-the-most/ Common questions, simple answers Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:02:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: miiimooo http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/10/07/how-to-determine-which-ip-addresses-are-hitting-your-web-site-the-most/comment-page-1/#comment-9499 miiimooo Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:27:27 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=1269#comment-9499 لم افهم شي لم افهم شي

]]> By: Ross http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/10/07/how-to-determine-which-ip-addresses-are-hitting-your-web-site-the-most/comment-page-1/#comment-9498 Ross Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:05:06 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=1269#comment-9498 Tony - Under normal circumstances yes, you're absolutely right. In my specific case, the site was loading the files via a flash player that they hosted, and all the requests came from the sites flash player. Adding the IP to my .htaccess in turn stopped the flash player from loading the songs for anyone/everyone who tried to play them from the *explatives* site. Tony -

Under normal circumstances yes, you’re absolutely right. In my specific case, the site was loading the files via a flash player that they hosted, and all the requests came from the sites flash player. Adding the IP to my .htaccess in turn stopped the flash player from loading the songs for anyone/everyone who tried to play them from the *explatives* site.

]]> By: Tony http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/10/07/how-to-determine-which-ip-addresses-are-hitting-your-web-site-the-most/comment-page-1/#comment-9497 Tony Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:58:44 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=1269#comment-9497 The problem is that if someone hotlinks your mp3s (or images, or any other media), then it's still the IPs of <em>their users</em> that will show up in your logs, not the offending webserver. That is to say, it will likely be a fairly even distribution of users and indistinguishable from that of your legitimate visitors (unless someone is just continuously refreshing your media content). What you want to be doing is checking for the referrer information to your <em>media files</em> (naturally excluding your own domain from the list). The problem is that if someone hotlinks your mp3s (or images, or any other media), then it’s still the IPs of their users that will show up in your logs, not the offending webserver. That is to say, it will likely be a fairly even distribution of users and indistinguishable from that of your legitimate visitors (unless someone is just continuously refreshing your media content).

What you want to be doing is checking for the referrer information to your media files (naturally excluding your own domain from the list).

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