Quoting John1 (suppressed): > On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:18 PM, suppressed wrote: > > >Quoting John1 (suppressed): > >>On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:57 PM, suppressed 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.... -- Mike Heins Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/ phone +1.765.647.1295 tollfree 800-949-1889 <suppressed> Just because something is obviously happening doesn't mean something obvious is happening. --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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