Anyone know what is going on here?

ecchi · 2012-08-15, 06:20 AM

I created a new domain, with a name that is unlikely to have been used before, over a month ago. I transfered DNS to my server but did bugger all to it, so for over a month it showed the standard "upload your index file..." message and nothing else.

On Sunday I uploaded an unfinished website to it. Today I went back to it to finish it and found the site has had several hits every day starting on Sunday (the day I uploaded it). They all show no referrer, and all 16 pages of the site have been hit several times. Normally I would assume that I got hit by a search engine spider bloody quickly but it keeps returning to look at the same page and (more surprisingly) there are no links to this site anywhere yet, so so I did a reverse DNS lookup. The IP is 82.132.249.191 which resolves to a British ISP, so presumably the searches are coming from a private computer, probably a virus bot. Anyone have any idea what is going on and how the hell they found an unlisted site?

And a further question: I also found an IP that was identified as a Google bot. Considering that there are no links to the site, and the Googlebot hit the day after I uploaded content to the site, how the hell did they find me too?

Thanks

2012-08-15, 06:20 AM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Anyone know what is going on here? I created a new domain, with a name that is unlikely to have been used before, over a month ago. I transfered DNS to my server but did bugger all to it, so for over a month it showed the standard "upload your index file..." message and nothing else. On Sunday I uploaded an unfinished website to it. Today I went back to it to finish it and found the site has had several hits every day starting on Sunday (the day I uploaded it). They all show no referrer, and all 16 pages of the site have been hit several times. Normally I would assume that I got hit by a search engine spider bloody quickly but it keeps returning to look at the same page and (more surprisingly) there are no links to this site anywhere yet, so so I did a reverse DNS lookup. The IP is 82.132.249.191 which resolves to a British ISP, so presumably the searches are coming from a private computer, probably a virus bot. Anyone have any idea what is going on and how the hell they found an unlisted site? And a further question: I also found an IP that was identified as a Google bot. Considering that there are no links to the site, and the Googlebot hit the day after I uploaded content to the site, how the hell did they find me too? Thanks