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April 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm #1044266
damo666
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ive just started a new forum and there always seems to be a guest lookin only thing is this forum has only just started and has 3 members its got gigs and a beach party advertised on it and im wondering if this maybe the council or ob is there anyway of finding out who it is? i heard that police or councils ip’s are really long is this true?

help please
April 15, 2008 at 2:21 pm #1160571
General Lighting
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many council IPs are just people looking from libraries or their high school/college…

the police use normal “home” broadband addresses these days if they want to do covert stuff

that said this site has been monitored by British and foreign law enforcement for years and we’ve not had any major grief – in 10 years two policemen have posted saying “free parties are illegal”, a bit like that “Dont’ Commit Crime” sticker you see at petrol stations :laugh_at:

you just have to assume that your site is being watched. Its a public forum after all. The same goes for murdochspace, bebo, facebook and all the rest of ’em.
April 15, 2008 at 2:21 pm #1218439
General Lighting
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many council IPs are just people looking from libraries or their high school/college…

the police use normal “home” broadband addresses these days if they want to do covert stuff

that said this site has been monitored by British and foreign law enforcement for years and we’ve not had any major grief – in 10 years two policemen have posted saying “free parties are illegal”, a bit like that “Dont’ Commit Crime” sticker you see at petrol stations :laugh_at:

you just have to assume that your site is being watched. Its a public forum after all. The same goes for murdochspace, bebo, facebook and all the rest of ’em.
April 15, 2008 at 3:27 pm #1160576
damo666
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General Lighting wrote:

many council IPs are just people looking from libraries or their high school/college…

the police use normal “home” broadband addresses these days if they want to do covert stuff

that said this site has been monitored by British and foreign law enforcement for years and we’ve not had any major grief – in 10 years two policemen have posted saying “free parties are illegal”, a bit like that “Dont’ Commit Crime” sticker you see at petrol stations :laugh_at:

you just have to assume that your site is being watched. Its a public forum after all. The same goes for murdochspace, bebo, facebook and all the rest of ’em.

Thanks
April 15, 2008 at 3:27 pm #1218444
damo666
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General Lighting wrote:

many council IPs are just people looking from libraries or their high school/college…

the police use normal “home” broadband addresses these days if they want to do covert stuff

that said this site has been monitored by British and foreign law enforcement for years and we’ve not had any major grief – in 10 years two policemen have posted saying “free parties are illegal”, a bit like that “Dont’ Commit Crime” sticker you see at petrol stations :laugh_at:

you just have to assume that your site is being watched. Its a public forum after all. The same goes for murdochspace, bebo, facebook and all the rest of ’em.

Thanks
April 15, 2008 at 9:14 pm #1160573
leveret
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damo666 wrote:

ive just started a new forum and there always seems to be a guest lookin

Quite likely a web crawler like Googlebot or one of the two dozen other common ones, building search indexes for the web. What’s the IP address it/they are coming from ? And can you get the browser identification string ? I can check my site logs, see if I’ve seen it too.

Quite apart from being monitored – probably unlikely for a very new site – thanks to the crawlers you can safely assume anything written on a public forum will be seen by anyone and everyone (and that includes dissing people and erm “intimate confessions” as much as organising the odd private party !)
April 15, 2008 at 9:14 pm #1218441
leveret
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damo666 wrote:

ive just started a new forum and there always seems to be a guest lookin

Quite likely a web crawler like Googlebot or one of the two dozen other common ones, building search indexes for the web. What’s the IP address it/they are coming from ? And can you get the browser identification string ? I can check my site logs, see if I’ve seen it too.

Quite apart from being monitored – probably unlikely for a very new site – thanks to the crawlers you can safely assume anything written on a public forum will be seen by anyone and everyone (and that includes dissing people and erm “intimate confessions” as much as organising the odd private party !)
April 16, 2008 at 9:35 am #1160577
damo666
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leveret wrote:

Quite likely a web crawler like Googlebot or one of the two dozen other common ones, building search indexes for the web. What’s the IP address it/they are coming from ? And can you get the browser identification string ? I can check my site logs, see if I’ve seen it too.

Quite apart from being monitored – probably unlikely for a very new site – thanks to the crawlers you can safely assume anything written on a public forum will be seen by anyone and everyone (and that includes dissing people and erm “intimate confessions” as much as organising the odd private party !)

The IP is 86.12.218.234 dont know what the browser identification string is, im using a free message board so dont think i will be able to get it either
April 16, 2008 at 9:35 am #1218445
damo666
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leveret wrote:

Quite likely a web crawler like Googlebot or one of the two dozen other common ones, building search indexes for the web. What’s the IP address it/they are coming from ? And can you get the browser identification string ? I can check my site logs, see if I’ve seen it too.

Quite apart from being monitored – probably unlikely for a very new site – thanks to the crawlers you can safely assume anything written on a public forum will be seen by anyone and everyone (and that includes dissing people and erm “intimate confessions” as much as organising the odd private party !)

The IP is 86.12.218.234 dont know what the browser identification string is, im using a free message board so dont think i will be able to get it either
April 16, 2008 at 12:13 pm #1160572
Acidfairy
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That IP address is someone in Ipswich using a Virgin Media connection
April 16, 2008 at 12:13 pm #1218440
Acidfairy
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That IP address is someone in Ipswich using a Virgin Media connection
April 16, 2008 at 12:33 pm #1160575
process
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Acidfairy wrote:

That IP address is someone in Ipswich using a Virgin Media connection

check you out, james bond, unless its your ip address that is!
April 16, 2008 at 12:33 pm #1218443
process
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Acidfairy wrote:

That IP address is someone in Ipswich using a Virgin Media connection

check you out, james bond, unless its your ip address that is!
April 17, 2008 at 5:46 pm #1160574
leveret
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Just tricks of the trade 😉

GeoIP isn’t always that accurate, for a long while it used to insist my IP was in Norfolk, though it’s now decided on Leicester (still wrong, just not so wildly wrong !)

Your one is almost certainly Suffolk though. Whois has it as an ex-NTL cable IP in their Colchester network area, so in the same rough area as GeoIP reckons.
April 17, 2008 at 5:46 pm #1218442
leveret
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Just tricks of the trade 😉

GeoIP isn’t always that accurate, for a long while it used to insist my IP was in Norfolk, though it’s now decided on Leicester (still wrong, just not so wildly wrong !)

Your one is almost certainly Suffolk though. Whois has it as an ex-NTL cable IP in their Colchester network area, so in the same rough area as GeoIP reckons.
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