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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/tdp_org/statuses/113108525970163764">Neil Craig (tdp_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:29:05 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org" title="tdp_org@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/22694-48-20221110181601.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Neil Craig" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Neil Craig</a></section><article><p>We monitor traffic to www.bbc.co.uk &amp; www.bbc.com per country &amp; got alerts that daily requests from Angola have dropped off loads recently.</p><p>Looking at the Angola traffic split by network AS. AS36907 traffic looks suspicious! Spidey sense triggered...the "before" traffic was *way* too consistent.</p><p>Digging in to the logs, looks like they removed their Fortigates on 6th Sept. which'd been sending 343k req/day for www.bbc.co.uk/ , every single day!</p><p>Gotta love being on the internet!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebStats" rel="tag">#WebStats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC" rel="tag">#BBC</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3639396#notice-7132955">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-10T01:29:05+09:00" title="Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:29:05 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org/113108525970163764" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org/113108525970163764">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: ichef.bbc.co.uk</div><h5><a href="https://www.bbc.com/">BBC - Homepage</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Breaking news, sport, TV, radio and a whole lot more.
        The BBC informs, educates and entertains - wherever you are, whatever your age.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/">BBC - Home</a></h5><div> from <span>@BBC</span></div></header><div>The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV &amp; radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3145083">Grafana graph with a single, completely consistent (apart from 2 spikes) requests per day totals for the last month</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/499/735/198/750/original/f46ef444cb8aa408.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/499/735/198/750/original/f46ef444cb8aa408.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3145084">Grafana graph with a line per network AS, with AS36907 nailed on at 343k requests per day until the 6th September when it dropped to almost nothing</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/499/802/629/676/original/0c2e8c58c7b62f1a.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/499/802/629/676/original/0c2e8c58c7b62f1a.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3145085">Screenshot of the BigQuery web console for 4th Sept. showing 343K requests from user-agent "Fortigate..." to www.bbc.co.uk/ and tens of requests per day maximum for everything else</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/501/220/234/066/original/94d58f2deccd3fe9.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/501/220/234/066/original/94d58f2deccd3fe9.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3145086">Screenshot of the BigQuery web console for 8th Sept. and the "fortigate" entry is not present!</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/501/259/252/194/original/1279ca51c408d6f6.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/501/259/252/194/original/1279ca51c408d6f6.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Neil Craig (tdp_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:29:05 JST Neil Craig
We monitor traffic to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com per country & got alerts that daily requests from Angola have dropped off loads recently.
Looking at the Angola traffic split by network AS. AS36907 traffic looks suspicious! Spidey sense triggered...the "before" traffic was *way* too consistent.
Digging in to the logs, looks like they removed their Fortigates on 6th Sept. which'd been sending 343k req/day for www.bbc.co.uk/ , every single day!
Gotta love being on the internet!
#WebStats #BBC
In conversationabout 3 months ago from mastodon.socialpermalink
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1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: ichef.bbc.co.uk
  BBC - Homepage
  Breaking news, sport, TV, radio and a whole lot more. The BBC informs, educates and entertains - wherever you are, whatever your age.
2. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  BBC - Home
  from @BBC
  The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
3. Grafana graph with a single, completely consistent (apart from 2 spikes) requests per day totals for the last month
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/499/735/198/750/original/f46ef444cb8aa408.png
4. Grafana graph with a line per network AS, with AS36907 nailed on at 343k requests per day until the 6th September when it dropped to almost nothing
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/499/802/629/676/original/0c2e8c58c7b62f1a.png
5. Screenshot of the BigQuery web console for 4th Sept. showing 343K requests from user-agent "Fortigate..." to www.bbc.co.uk/ and tens of requests per day maximum for everything else
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/501/220/234/066/original/94d58f2deccd3fe9.png
6. Screenshot of the BigQuery web console for 8th Sept. and the "fortigate" entry is not present!
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/108/501/259/252/194/original/1279ca51c408d6f6.png

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