Abusive traffic from Microsoft China?

Thu Nov 8 18:28:46 UTC 2007

What are you seeing? port 80 traffic? port 25?

thousands of random connections sounds like web indexing to me.

-Dan

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, David Hubbard wrote:

>
> Just wondering if anyone else is seeing huge random
> floods of traffic from:
>
> inetnum:      202.96.51.128 - 202.96.51.255
> netname:      MICROSOFT-CO
> descr:        Microsft (China) Co.Ltd
> country:      CN
> admin-c:      CH455-AP
> tech-c:       SY21-AP
> mnt-by:       MAINT-CNCGROUP-BJ
> changed:      suny at publicf.bta.net.cn 20060926
> status:       ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE
> source:       APNIC
> changed:      suny at publicf.bta.net.cn 20060926
>
> On a nearly daily basis we see them randomly open
> thousands of connections from a variety of addresses
> in that block to multiple servers.  I've emailed
> of coruse but that results in nothing.  Probably
> will just end up blocking them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>