Re: Interesting Apache logs

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 03/25/02

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    From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:10:18 GMT

    In article <slrna9uunr.29i.ivan@fandango.e23host.com>,
    Ivan Kelly <ivan@nospam.ivankelly.net> wrote:
    >In article <3C9E9C07.A891705@mindspring.com>, Clark wrote:
    >> My business website is getting the same thing. I wonder what percentage
    >> of the total traffic on the internet is this sort of thing. I've been
    >> getting it for quite a while, and it constitutes the bulk of the
    >> requests to my site.
    >>
    >a more interesting question would be, are hosting companies entitled to
    >compensation due to this kind of thing. bandwidth costs money and if
    >this is wasting bandwidth are people not entitled to compo.

    I think most hosting companies charge their customers based on the amount
    of traffic to/from their servers. So the cost is presumably being funneled
    to them. The question becomes: are customers of hosting companies entitled
    to compenstation?

    >only problem is who is to fault? microsoft or lazy network admins?

    I suspect most of the infected machines are not operated by professional
    administrators, but are simply home machines. They're more likely ignorant
    than lazy. 

    -- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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