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Old 02-06-2009, 08:00 PM
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Default Thousands of guests at the same time???

I have a very strange problem and I was hoping one of you could give me some pointers to help me figure out what is going on.

For the last 3 weeks I have been getting huge amounts of guests that come at the exact same time. It started out with 500, and now it's at 2300. I believe that they all are phantoms. I just don't know how or why???

Here are the facts.

1. They all come at the exact same time.
2. They all have unique IP Address's
3. They all divide up into differn't threads. Some threads get more than others.
4. They don't appear to be moving around.
5. No vbulletin utilities register them as being there except for "Users currently online". The other addons that I installed for advanced satistics never register them.
6. No webtrend type programs show any spikes in visitors. "Other software"
7. Only happens on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
8. I cannot duplicate this with any Hack that pads a user numbers "FAKE USER".

If you have any Ideas, I sure would like to know.
I'm using version 3.7.4 now, but it did it with 3.7.3 as well.
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Old 02-06-2009, 09:27 PM
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Thats a bit odd

Taking a wild stab in the dark it sounds like a scheduled task is running at a specific time and it is doing some odd with user stats.

Have a look around what task you have running when it spikes, it might also be worth putting the no plugins setting into config.php when it is spiking to see if it kills the spike. If it is then the problem is with a mod.

What sort of caching are you using?
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Old 02-06-2009, 09:30 PM
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Actually, sounds like spiders.
Usually they're good, but they can be nasty buggers at times.

I've witnessed that Yahoo spiders like to travel in swarms, among others.
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Old 02-06-2009, 09:43 PM
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Thats a bit odd

Taking a wild stab in the dark it sounds like a scheduled task is running at a specific time and it is doing some odd with user stats.

Have a look around what task you have running when it spikes, it might also be worth putting the no plugins setting into config.php when it is spiking to see if it kills the spike. If it is then the problem is with a mod.

What sort of caching are you using?
It's weird. only one task that runs at 3:00am everyday. Cache is default.

I forgot to mention also, when the User threashold time limit is up, they all leave. Thats how I know they are not moving around. The IP address span the whole world, but mostly America. That is the biggest worry I have, every single one of them has a unique IP address. Not one of IP's was used by any of my members, and no proxies.
Sometimes they come 2 and 3 times. for an example, 2300 guests will come at 1:31pm and leave at 2:31pm.

--------------- Added [DATE]1233964042[/DATE] at [TIME]1233964042[/TIME] ---------------

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Actually, sounds like spiders.
Usually they're good, but they can be nasty buggers at times.

I've witnessed that Yahoo spiders like to travel in swarms, among others.
Thats a problem to. I have a hack that shows all the spiders. They never show up as such.
Everyone has differn't IP address's which include valid hostipals, schools, companies, etc.
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Old 02-07-2009, 04:14 PM
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could it be google crawl's? i know this is sometimes done weekly rather than monthly as advertised by google.

their bot's scrawl the internet picking up all new info for the google index's.
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could it be google crawl's? i know this is sometimes done weekly rather than monthly as advertised by google.

their bot's scrawl the internet picking up all new info for the google index's.
I checked. I use google webmaster tools and analytics. Both services do not show thousands of people showup at those times. Also, remember that each person has a unique IP address, none of which are search engines. I'm stumped.
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post one of the ip's
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post one of the ip's
I will do that! Good thinking. I know most of you guys are real savvy in that area. I won't post the full 120 pages of them though
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post an ip, we'll figure it out
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post an ip, we'll figure it out

750 just showed up. This is just one page of the IP's Let me know what else I can give you. And again, thanks for all of you're help.


Guest
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24.46.34.225

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150.70.84.48

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38.100.8.50

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76.205.147.207

03:08 PM Guest
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82.99.30.36

03:08 PM Guest
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206.146.0.103

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host230.teh.lluga.net

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24.108.72.203

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pub-192-41-82-53.center7.com

03:08 PM Guest
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209.249.53.238

03:08 PM Guest
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92.105.118.47

03:08 PM Guest
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74.52.245.146

03:08 PM Guest
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66.249.16.212

03:08 PM Guest
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85.185.68.121

03:08 PM Guest
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76.66.140.54

03:08 PM Guest
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120.28.64.69

03:08 PM Guest
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190.44.76.148

03:08 PM Guest
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216.161.218.156

03:08 PM Guest
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12.155.51.153

03:08 PM Guest
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69.73.55.138
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