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

[Arnaud Kerhornou]

mark wilkinson wrote:
> I would call it a "success" if it returns an empty mobyData block :-)
>
> It all depends how you define success!
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>   
It returns an empty mobyData block but because it fails the input 
validation step - the service is not expecting an empty input mobyData 
bloc,so it returns in the service note the exception code, 201 - 
"INPUTS_INVALID"

Arn.
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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
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> 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.
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>>     
> it doesn't really affect the services, just the access and success rate 
> statistics ;-)
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>> M
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>> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:46:27 -0700, Arnaud Kerhornou 
>> <akerhornou at imim.es> wrote:
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>>     
>>> 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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