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kingtut

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#35495 10-Jun-2009 14:38

I load a page on a website I own, then a few minutes later I get a hit to that same page from 202.180.81.52, a callplus IP address. Can someone from Slingshot explain why this is happening? Surely you can just spy on me / cache files directly?

daman88

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#223621 10-Jun-2009 14:54

What's your webpage dude?
Maybe your webpage is hosted by Slingshot?
Maybe your computer has Slingshot DNS cache on?

You will need to give more details........before somebody can solve your problemo :)

kingtut

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#223624 10-Jun-2009 15:01

it's not really a problem so much as a curiosity. page is not hosted by Slingshot. i don't know that much about dns but i get the impression dns deals in resolving names to addresses, not following me round the net with full path GETs.

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#223654 10-Jun-2009 16:13

And what is your ISP?

kingtut

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#223657 10-Jun-2009 16:15

Slingshot. Guess I just would like to know if this is common practice for an ISP.

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#223659 10-Jun-2009 16:16

My guess is a transparent proxy and as soon as you try to access the site Slingshot tries to cache it.

kingtut

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#223664 10-Jun-2009 16:21

ahhh yes i am also connecting through a zenbu hotspot, could this be a transparent proxy??

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#225076 14-Jun-2009 22:50

I am guessing that the time / clock on the server is about 5 mins out from the clock on your computer. Your page loading would be causing the log in the entry from slingshot but its logged as 5 mins late because the clock on the web server could be 5 mins late.

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#225086 14-Jun-2009 23:09

Look at the RDNS on that IP. It's not a regular allocated-to-customer IP.

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