Re: Normal AOL proxy behavior or DOS attack?

From: Jerry III (jerryiii_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/03


Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:58:28 -0800

Well, if you're going to stick to single servers then what's the point? You
neither have a load balanced servers (since most of the requests will be
directed to their servers, not to ones with the least load) nor fail-over
servers. Why exactly would you then use multiple servers?

Jerry

"Bernard" <qbernard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O6LNs2itDHA.2248@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Sorry man, been travelling abit..
>
> well, the NLB setting is set to 'single' affinity. so it
> will always stick with one server and session is not shared.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> Please respond to newsgroups only ...
>
>
>
> "Jerry III" <jerryiii@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u9CKqbTrDHA.976@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I don't think that's the issue. That "sessions timeout" is most likely
> > caused by your servers not sharing session state (regular ASP can't do
> this
> > and Asp.Net needs to be setup to do that) or your servers might have
> > different times (which would cause problems to Asp.Net's sessions as
> they're
> > timestamped).
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > "Bernard" <qbernard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:eLYbsbDrDHA.2964@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > Jerry,
> > >
> > > I have one NLB site that straight away give 'session timeout'
> > > error, if you access via AOL browser. do you think that it is
> > > related to this ?
> > >
> > > if user access direct to one of the host via dedicated IP or
> > > FQDN, everything work fine. why this that ? and from research
> > > seems like AOL users have this problem for a long time and
> > > nobody care.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Bernard Cheah
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/
> > > Please respond to newsgroups only ...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Jerry III" <jerryiii@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:OKJrG7$qDHA.1880@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > > Not really, it's simply a load balanced proxy. The tracking is
> actually
> > a
> > > > lot easier as all their users requests go through their servers.
That
> > > gives
> > > > them complete control over what their users see and what they don't.
> And
> > > > they're AOL, they don't care that they're just creating a lot of
> > problems
> > > > for others.
> > > >
> > > > Jerry
> > > >
> > > > "ja" <na@noemail.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:eRr7KLiqDHA.1708@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > > Why do they do it that way? It must be a nightmare to backtrack if
> one
> > > of
> > > > > their users cause problems on the net.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "Phil Frisbie, Jr." <phil@hawksoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:%23IWrHmhqDHA.976@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > > > > ja wrote:
> > > > > > > Noticed a funny behavior in my IIS log files.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It seems a request for one webpage is showing as coming from 6
> > > > different
> > > > > IP
> > > > > > > addresses.
> > > > > > > pic1 on webpage requested by 1 IP, pic2 on the same page by
> > another
> > > IP
> > > > > and
> > > > > > > pic3 by a third IP etc. etc.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > All IPs are AOL proxy IPs:
> > > > > > > 198.81.26.44
> > > > > > > 198.81.26.103
> > > > > > > 198.81.26.110
> > > > > > > etc. etc
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is this normal AOL proxy behavior?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Phil Frisbie, Jr.
> > > > > > Hawk Software
> > > > > > http://www.hawksoft.com
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>



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