CGSpace Notes

Documenting day-to-day work on the CGSpace repository.

May, 2022

2022-05-04

  • I found a few more IPs making requests using the shady Chrome 44 user agent in the last few days so I will add them to the block list too:
    • 18.207.136.176
    • 185.189.36.248
    • 50.118.223.78
    • 52.70.76.123
    • 3.236.10.11
  • Looking at the Solr statistics for 2022-04
    • 52.191.137.59 is Microsoft, but they are using a normal user agent and making tens of thousands of requests
    • 64.39.98.62 is owned by Qualys, and all their requests are probing for /etc/passwd etc
    • 185.192.69.15 is in the Netherlands and is using a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests to paths forbidden in robots.txt
    • 157.55.39.159 is owned by Microsoft and identifies as bingbot so I don’t know why its requests were logged in Solr
    • 52.233.67.176 is owned by Microsoft and uses a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests
    • 157.55.39.144 is owned by Microsoft and uses a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests
    • 207.46.13.177 is owned by Microsoft and identifies as bingbot so I don’t know why its requests were logged in Solr
    • If I query Solr for time:2022-04* AND dns:*msnbot* AND dns:*.msn.com. I see a handful of IPs that made 41,000 requests
  • I purged 93,974 hits from these IPs using my check-spider-ip-hits.sh script
  • Now looking at the Solr statistics by user agent I see:
    • SomeRandomText
    • RestSharp/106.11.7.0
    • MetaInspector/5.7.0 (+https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector)
    • wp_is_mobile
    • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; um-LN/1.0; mailto: techinfo@ubermetrics-technologies.com; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1"
    • insomnia/2022.2.1
    • ZoteroTranslationServer
    • omgili/0.5 +http://omgili.com
    • curb
    • Sprout Social (Link Attachment)
  • I purged 2,900 hits from these user agents from Solr using my check-spider-hits.sh script
  • I made a pull request to COUNTER-Robots for some of these agents
    • In the mean time I will add them to our local overrides in DSpace