Re: netstat

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Mankuthimma on 18/02/06 02:19, wrote:
> On 2/18/06, *Adam Hardy* <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com 
> <mailto:adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>> wrote:
>
>     I use netstat to check what's going on with the ports on my hosted
>     server each night, and I have got this entry (see below, last on the
>     list).
>
>
> Is this the one ?
>
>     tcp        0      0 hardyaa1.miniserv:https bosch.netcraft.com:4800
>     <http://bosch.netcraft.com:4800>
>     ESTABLISHED 421/java
>
>
> It's saying somebody from netcraft.com <http://netcraft.com> domain has 
> connected to your https port. Most prbly, it could be a netcfraft.com 
> <http://netcfraft.com> bot which measuring/estimating your uptime, 
> server etc. The IP address belongs to Netcraft. Maybe you should send 
> them a mail seeking more details.

That's the line. It seems that their bot is locking on to my port then, 
for some reason - for weeks at a time. I assume then that it's an error. 
It shouldn't be using HTTPS since there's only one login page on the 
website that uses HTTPS. I guess it's not reading the website robots.txt 
file - or perhaps I should check the file myself :(