So here's a weird one. So far this month, I've had about 500 distinct visitors to my website. I think that's pretty good. However, the odd part is that 110 of them are from the same domain, dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net:
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Is there just one user who keeps on getting his IP reassigned? Are all the machines in this provider hopelessly compromised? What could account for so many machines coming from swbell.net?
Update 2008-07-25: Another Movable Type website has the exact same problem.
I have the same thing happening from dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net! Did you ever figure out what is going on with this? Email me please. I couldn't find an email for you so I left a comment, but really just wanted to email you and have you email me back.
I haven't figured it out. I don't have enough information from my web host to see whether these are webbots/spiders or real people. Things I'd like to see are: how many pages viewed, when they are viewed, time spent on website, referrer, etc. I also don't have email addresses for any of these IP addresses, so I can't determine what the owners of the IP are trying to do.
I'm going to leave it for someone else to figure out.