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Forums › 2degrees (including Slingshot, Orcon, Flip, Stuff Fibre, MyRepublic, 2talk and Vocus) › Why is Slingshot following me?
kingtut

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#35495 10-Jun-2009 14:38
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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?

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  #223621 10-Jun-2009 14:54
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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 :)




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  #223624 10-Jun-2009 15:01
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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
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And what is your ISP?




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  #223657 10-Jun-2009 16:15
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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
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My guess is a transparent proxy and as soon as you try to access the site Slingshot tries to cache it.




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  #223664 10-Jun-2009 16:21
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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
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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
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Look at the RDNS on that IP. It's not a regular allocated-to-customer IP.




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