On Monday 16 February 2009 00:35:06 David C. Rankin wrote:
The IP 66.249.71.154 is google alright, but who knows if it is spoofed. I killed it with everything I could think of:
google crawls the net to index web servers so people can do web searches. If you want your site to show up when people do web searches, I suggest you stop blocking it It's easy to spoof IP addresses in DoS attacks, because then it's one way traffic, it doesn't have to get a response. But it's much harder to do in a TCP connection, when the packets have to be responded to. If you want to be sure, you can verify the MAC address of the packets. If it's the same as that of your default gateway, it comes from outside your provider's "local" LAN, and is almost guaranteed to be genuine. But considering that it's something google does in order to maintain their database, I see no reason to suspect foul play. Be paranoid when they start trying to execute CGI scripts or similar on your site. Not for simple reads. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org