It also could be that this was a remote request from a host with a
misconfigured reverse DNS entry. I've had a few of those show up in my
log file. If so, there's really no way to find out where it came from.
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> >> > host161-10 - - [18/Aug/2000:03:32:56 -0400] "GET /valve_select.html
> >> > HTTP/1.1" 200 4545 "http://www.remosa-valves.com/butterfly.html"
> >> > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt; netkrk-00)"
> >
> >> If the name is in your log files your server resolved it from an IP
> >> number to a name. NT servers will use WINS as well as DNS to resolve
> >> names, and that looks a lot like a WINS name to me. But if it is, it
> >> should be local to the web server - you shouldn't be resolving
> >> external addresses via WINS.
> >> (If the server is a *nix box, it may also be participating in WINS
> >> resolution if it has SAMBA installed, but I don't know much about
> >> SAMBA).
> >
> >the server is a UNIX machine. If I understood you correctly, that
> >host161-10 could be another site on a virtual Verio server. Is this
> >what you're suggesting?
>
> That's not quite what I had in mind, but yes, host161-10 could be
> defined locally on your servers host file, or be defined locally on
> it's DNS server. If you can put your own cgi-scripts of the server,
> you could ask your web server to resolve that name back to a number,
> and see what it returns - it's probably local to your hosting
> provider.
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