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That's easy enough. There are WWW pages that contain "time.wiodows.com". I turned up a couple with Bing, in examples of how to use the ntpdate program, and th
by JdeBP 6y ago
That's easy enough. There are WWW pages that contain "time.wiodows.com". I turned up a couple with Bing, in examples of how to use the ntpdate program, and there are no doubt more, including ones where this is hyperlinked by some "smart" program. No need for a nefarious explanation when a WWW spider found this on a WWW page and decided to crawl it will do just as well. (-:
- banana_giraffe 6y agoEven if they're not hyperlinked, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised to learn of a crawler looking for FQDNs and things that just generally look like URLs in text to crawl into.
- vermilingua 6y agoI don’t buy it. The odds that Baidu only crawls that page immediately after it is connected to by a chinese IP are astronomical. EDIT: Ah, unless the page containing the link was accessed via a Baidu search. That makes sense.
- JdeBP 6y agoThey could both have been the WWW spider. Search engines have been known to not announce themselves, to check what they are seeing against what everyone else sees.