Question

Previous use of IP address

Asked by: klykken

I just opened a new hosting account with a different host.
I upload all my files to the new host, my hostname still resolves to the old ip at my old host.

After 5 days I go to check the webstats of my stats at the new webhost, which can only be reached by it's ip adress, again my domainname still points to my old host.

In my stats I see that my site has had approx. 5-600 unique visits a day (at old host it was 50 a day) , since day one of opening the account with the new host. Very strange, since I am the only one that knows that I am about to move my site to a new host.

Some characteristics from the logs:
1. They *all* use IE 5.5 for windows
2. They all come from different ip-addresses
3. Most of them seem to only visit my homepage.

Can anyone make any sense of this?
Is it possible that my new ip-adress was used by someone before. Is it possible to find out what my ipadress was used for before I got it?

Thanks!

-klykken

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by: NetelligenPosted on 2003-10-11 at 18:57:16ID: 9534478

"my domainname still points to my old host"
Do you know what the TTL is set for on your domain?  Do you control your domain zone file(s) or is someone else doing it?
If you are unsure about the specifics of your zone file, let me know and I can walk you through it.

"Is it possible that my new ip-adress was used by someone before"
Absolutely.  Call your hosting company and see if they can shed some light on it.  Most likely it was used by a site that was being hosted by your new company and was dropped for some reason.  This definitely makes sense since you state that most hits go only to your home page.

Netelligen

 

by: klykkenPosted on 2003-10-11 at 20:58:00ID: 9534737

1. "my domainname still points to my old host"
This is by my choice. I don't have a problem with my DNS :-) My domainname points to my old host and I'm keeping it there until all my files are uploaded and my website working under the new host.

"Is it possible that my new ip-adress was used by someone before"
This is one key in what I asked, and I am going to ask my new host wgho my new ip-address belonged to before. Thank you :-)

I really wonder how I can get so much traffic on the ip-address from the hour I signed up. Based on the characteristics outlined in my first post, it sounds weird. I don't really think all the visits are really done by browsers.




 

by: NetelligenPosted on 2003-10-11 at 21:59:55ID: 9534864

The only way I know of that you could truly tell is by setting up an IDS or by turning logging for all ports on the firewall to look for a trend.  I would guess that some of the hits may be port scans, robots, and the like.

In my opinion, however, if the previous hosted site was at all popular 500 hits is nothing.  I worked for a little-known job website that did not have much money for marketing and we would get about 300,000 individual hits per day.

BTW, what are you using to gather statistics and on what platform?

At least you haven't stated that your e-mail is being blacklisted from your new IPs :)

When I received my new block from Sprint I was unable to send to most major ISPs for about a week until I convinced Sprint to clear it up for me (since they owned the IPs).  Apparently the company that had mine were heavy-duty spammers and were dropped by Sprint for it.  Sprint really pissed me off for giving me that block!

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2003-10-12 at 05:41:53ID: 9535544

>I don't really think all the visits are really done by browsers
I think you're right, I think you're seeing a high number of network reconnaissance hits. Scanners that look for open ports. Pre-attack scans. I hope you have a good firewall with your new hosting service, or at least have the server hardened with a system-based Firewall...

Have you tried nslookup on the IP address to see if you get any resolution to another hostname?

 

by: klykkenPosted on 2003-11-10 at 10:39:14ID: 9716875

I just looked in my raw log file.

I get approxomatttely 500 of these hits a day, even before I asociated a domainname with my new IP address:

64.136.133.226 - - [31/Oct/2003:22:41:34 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 5442 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"

The only thing that changes is the first info, the ip adress "64.136.133.226", the rest is the same.

Someone told me that Get is invalid and could mean someone is trying something..

-klykken







 

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