apache log file question: changing ip's

[Net Llama!]

On 06/03/03 17:17, Joel Hammer wrote:

> Just looking at hits in my access.log for those wedding pictures.
> Some numbers (ip's) seem to change for every requested document, even when
> the requests are sequential and less than a second apart.
> For example:
> 
> 152.163.252.71 - - [02/Jun/2003:16:55:11 -0400] "GET /Ellen/styles.css HTTP/1.0" 200 1328
> 152.163.252.69 - - [02/Jun/2003:16:55:11 -0400] "GET /Ellen/thumbs/1Bouquet1.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 4561
> 152.163.253.34 - - [02/Jun/2003:16:55:11 -0400] "GET /Ellen/thumbs/1Bouquet2.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 4876
> 152.163.252.164 - - [02/Jun/2003:16:55:12 -0400] "GET /Ellen/thumbs/1Maeli.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 4098
> 152.163.253.65 - - [02/Jun/2003:16:55:12 -0400] "GET /Ellen/thumbs/1Maeli2.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 4966
> 
> Obviously, this is one person logging on and getting the thumbnails from the
> index page. So, what is this constant change of ip's? Is the some security
> feature of aol?

Its a load balancer.  Many HUGE organizations use them so that internal 
routers & switches, etc don't get saturated.

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