[MOBY-dev] Large amounts of requests from always the same IPaddress - 137.82.67.190

[mark wilkinson]

I would call it a "success" if it returns an empty mobyData block :-)

It all depends how you define success!

M


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Mark Wilkinson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arnaud Kerhornou <akerhornou at imim.es>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:15:11 
To:Core developer announcements <moby-dev at lists.open-bio.org>
Cc:mobydev <moby-dev at biomoby.org>
Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] Large amounts of requests from always the same IP
 address - 137.82.67.190



Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> This is Eddie's "isAlive?" script.  It runs on a cron and hits every 
> service in the registry with an empty mobyData block to see if the 
> service responds with the same (as per the API).  If not, the service 
> is flagged as "dead" and this information is available in the LSID 
> metadata for that service.  We just started experimenting with this 
> last week.
>
> If it is bothering you we can reduce the frequency of the cron... I 
> don't actually know how frequent it is right now.
>
it doesn't really affect the services, just the access and success rate 
statistics ;-)
> M
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:46:27 -0700, Arnaud Kerhornou 
> <akerhornou at imim.es> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd would like to track information about requests i receive from always
>> the same IP address, 137.82.67.190. They don't really affect our
>> services, i'm just curious about what's behind this.
>> i can't map this IP address to a DNS entry, and it seems to request the
>> services at 'genome.imim.es' on a regular basis, with empty an mobyData
>> bloc, so they always fail.
>>
>> Is it happening to anyone else ?
>>
>> thanks
>> Arnaud
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