Re: Attempted zip download blocks future requests to domain

"Steve Claflin" <steve@steveclaflin.com> wrote in message
news:I4KHf.2330$Lr.1256@trnddc01...
>I have experienced a strange problem. I have a zip file on my web site
>that I sometimes download at client locations. Recently, attempts to
>download it have timed out, and then any future attempts to view any page
>on my site, or any page for other sites hosted at the same IP address, have
>gotten a "page not found" error page (not only on the machine where I
>attempted the download, but on other machines at the same location).
>
> Is this likely to be due to a bit pattern that matches a virus signature?
> And somehow the server is "blacklisting" that IP address?
>
Check the webserver logs and see what they say about the connection attempts
from those IP addresses.

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz
Received on Mon May 1 00:50:27 2006