{"id":113,"date":"2005-12-02T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_man\/dear_msnbot.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"dear_msnbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/12\/02\/dear_msnbot","title":{"rendered":"Dear Msnbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dear Msnbot: why do you hammer on port 8080 when there is nothing listening there? <\/p>\n<p> I recently set in place a comprehensive iptables firewall and have started logging dropped packets. I&#8217;ve noticed the highest number of dropped packets comes from 65.54.188.51 aka msnbot.msn.com. Does it just try port 8080 on every known domain name, &#8220;just in case&#8221;? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Msnbot: why do you hammer on port 8080 when there is nothing listening there? I recently set in place a comprehensive iptables firewall and have started logging dropped packets. I&#8217;ve noticed the highest number of dropped packets comes from 65.54.188.51 aka msnbot.msn.com. Does it just try port 8080 on every known domain name, &#8220;just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}