[ic] Possible bug: Too many new ID assignments for this IP address

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Wed Aug 24 18:10:25 EDT 2005


Quoting John1 (list_subscriber at yahoo.co.uk):
> On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:18 PM, mike at perusion.com wrote:
> 
> >Quoting John1 (list_subscriber at yahoo.co.uk):
> >>On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:57 PM, mike at perusion.com wrote:
> >>>Should not happen. Since you don't assign a new session, and the
> >>>counter gets incremented only at that time, after an hour of no new
> >>>session you can get one.
> >>>
> >>
> >>But, what I am saying is that it appears that all UK AOL customers
> >>appear at our server on only a handful of IP addresses, i.e. the IP
> >>addresses of their proxy servers (and similarly for the major cable
> >>operator NTL).
> >
> >That doesn't matter -- NONE of them will get a new session from that
> >IP, so at the end of the hour they are back in.
> >
> >Unless you can show me in code how the counter will get incremented
> >from that IP address, I am done with this.
> >
> As I confessed in my last post I wasn't thinking straight on one account - 
> I was thinking that the mtime would still be updated even when the request 
> for a new sessionid was denied.  But, I now understand that mtime will 
> remain untouched during the lockout period.
> 
> So I now see that the lockout will end after time robot_expire.
> 
> However, as AOL and NTL implement a NAT proxy set up it does mean that your 
> suggestion of a low "limit robot_expire" (in conjunction with say 
> RobotLimit of say 100) is essential for moderately busy sites.
> 
> I am trying a limit robot_expire 0.002 as you suggest - Hopefully this will 
> be sufficient as you say, but I will let you know if I still get lockouts 
> appearing in the error log.

I can't imagine you will. That means you would have to have 100 consecutive
new session assignments from the same proxy server without a 3-minute gap
between. That would be a lot of traffic unless you are targeting one ISP....

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Mike Heins
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