Server problems….

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Fred Stiening

For those who are doing the volunteer thing, the server is currently returning all servers as “invalid”. Not sure if this is temporary – in retrospect it may be that I’ve been hitting the whois API with too many requests and am being blocked. So as far as I know, the entire internet hasn’t vanished.

Hopefully it goes away – being able to lookup IPs is useful. Perhaps I banned something I shouldn’t have 🙂

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2 Responses to Server problems….

  1. Art Stone says:
    March 24, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    Cheap web hosting may be worth what you pay for it 🙂 I noticed problems with DNS lookups over the weekend happening randomly. I rebooted the server and it found a new DNS server and that seemed to clear up the problem for now.

  2. Art Stone says:
    March 24, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Website trivia for those web geeks out there…

    I log web activity into a database to do things like detect bots that haven’t announced themselves as bots. Each IP address creates a record in a table
    MariaDB [tracking]> select min(lastvisit) from ipcount;
    +———————+
    | min(lastvisit) |
    +———————+
    | 2013-06-10 22:05:33 |
    +———————+
    1 row in set (0.32 sec)

    MariaDB [tracking]> select count(*) from tracking.ipcount;
    +———-+
    | count(*) |
    +———-+
    | 936617 |
    +———-+
    1 row in set (0.00 sec)

    June 2013 was the last time I cleaned out the table, which has grown to over 1 GB is size – so computers attached to 936,617 different IP addresses have requested at least one page in a bit less than two years

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