Mint Forum

Can anyone help me figure out why there are more than 514 hits for 127.255.255.255 in Crushes in the last 24 hours? See, it’s not a valid address. It’s a loopback address. But all the pages they’re hitting seem to be normal browsing activity.

Since it’s a brand-new phenomenon, it’s probably related to the fact that I moved my site to another provider yesterday. The DB, however, is still where it was.

Also, in the Referrer Aggregator, I’m getting google.com listed under “Websites,” when it shouldn’t be appearing there at all. Plus, if I click on it in the listing, some of the URLs are for Yahoo searches, not Google searches

Sorry for the delay (please see this post for an explanation).

This sounds like two potential problems. When you switched hosts, did you go from a 32-bit server to a 64-bit server? If so, check this thread for a solution That would explain the inconsistent referrer domain listings. The IP address issue is likely the result of a firewall or some sort of proxy on your new server.

Grant, you also have to change the *_checksum columns to UNSIGNED. Just waiting for the data to flush out won’t solve the problem.

And if I do EMPTY the visits table, what data will I lose? I’ll still have my overall visits, but no detail of the last 5 weeks?

Until that corrupted data is flushed hits for specific pages and referrers may be grossly inaccurate (with no way to distinguish between valid and tainted numbers). After EMPTYing the table you will retain all aggregate data (the Visits pane, the Feeds pane, the list of Watched pages but not their counts, etc). Everything else will have to be repopulated.

Is your ip_long column also UNSIGNED? (It should be, that’s the column that corresponds to this problem.)

Followed all the steps mentioned within, but still getting tons of hits from 127.255.255 within the NameTags mint. This affects our home rentals site at rentnice.com

Hello? anyone checking this board?

I am now seeing this problem in my Crushes pepper as well. While I have not tried out the steps in this post, is there a clear set of steps I can do to get rid of the unrealistic amount of visits and time from 127.255.255.255?

Thanks!

Any other options? nothing working. thanks

Like what kind of range?