in Follow-Up, Meddling, MT.Net

Another mystery bot example

Here’s another example of bizarre hits. Two hits for this six-year-old page coming in within 30 minutes of each other:

138.162.8.57 – – [15/Oct/2009:12:12:16 -0400] “GET /2003/07/28/blimps-and-other-things-bizarre/ HTTP/1.1” 200 5094 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)”

[snip]

138.163.106.72 – – [15/Oct/2009:12:44:33 -0400] “GET /2003/07/28/blimps-and-other-things-bizarre/ HTTP/1.1” 200 5094 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)”

The first resolves to gate2-jacksonville.nmci.navy.mil and the second resolves to gate2-bremerton.nmci.navy.mil. It looks like there’s a full-scale botnet attack going on behind the DoD firewalls right now.