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Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
Background: I manage an ecommerce website. Recent bot traffic is up. Most traffic can be traced to one or two IP addresses with hundreds of requests per day. These ip addresses don't have DNS records for reverse lookup, and when I map the requests in cloudflare, one address shows up as requesting from different data centers all over the US. What is going on here? Source IP example 173 . 245 . 58 . 0
Chicago, United States (ORD)
340 requests
San Jose, United States (SJC)
330 requests
Los Angeles, United States (LAX)
310 requests
Atlanta, United States (ATL)
310 requests
Dallas-Fort Worth, United States (DFW)
290 requests
Newark, United States (EWR)
280 requests
Washington, United States (IAD)
230 requests
Miami, United States (MIA)
210 requests
Boston, United States (BOS)
140 requests
Singapore, Singapore (SIN)
130 requests
Thanks for ideas.