Jeff Trawick wrote:
scanning for an open proxy, the :: would grab the ip address and the proxy would then be in it's use to route content that may not be legitimately sent to the destination. or content that it is criminal to even possess. [ child porn jumps to mind for an example. ]On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM, J. Greenlees <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:Jeff Trawick wrote: ~snip~ %a is supposed to be an IP address, so what IP address is "::"? I'm onlysomewhat familiar with IPv6 but I've never seen "::" before.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Notation One or any number of consecutive groups of zero value may be replaced with two colons. [ ... ] The localhost (loopback) address, 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1, and the IPv6 unspecified address, 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0, are reduced to ::1 and ::, respectively.and it is bogus to have the unspecified address as the client IP addressand if you check MS' RPC mechanism it uses 0.0.0.0 for the ip address to glom onto ANY available ip address. That suggests that the client giving the :: address is most likely a bot of some sort. it could be a legitimate bot for an rpc mechanism, or it could be [ seems more likely ] to be one meant to find an exploitable weakness. or, the client could be using an anonymizer service before getting to the OPs site. many reasons that it could be the ip unspecified address, only a few of which are cause for concern to the server admin.That is the source IP address, which is required for routing replies (including those during the "connect" flow) back to the client, so I don't see how this can be 0 simply because of something the client is doing (other than triggering some sort of bug on the server side, of course).
I suspect that the client is a bot doing a scan for an open proxy, one handing the :: out for that purpose. or, since it causes the 100% cpu load, it's the beginnings of a new ddos attack mechanism. we all may need to explicitly deny unspecified ip addresses from server access right quick.
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