Spiders under the radar

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

I last posted four days ago. Starting 18 hours ago, an interesting "hit" pattern emerged:

It was evident that the four spikes in the 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM window of activity were all 19. The spike of 12 hits about 11:00 AM may also be related. Those 88 hits are most likely related.

Looking at the sources:

It looks like most of them came from Russia. The 11:00 AM spike may be the 10 from India plus a couple of "real" hits.

Ignoring the top two lines, I see what I would expect for a 1-day list of sources. I wonder if the four "19"s were happenstance, or if someone out there is trying to mask spider activity by keeping spurts under 20 at a time…