Right now I could use the guidance of Atrain Radio to help shape what will be a rant. But here it is.
I detect on my streams the periodic inspection of some web crawler logging on for the sole purpose of finding a "cause of action" to go after me for mispelling words or whatever particular evidence they are sniffing to find.
There is a recurrant connection from Mountain View California which connects for 180-seconds three different times. It is not a listener, it is a Google/Microsoft drawer snooping.
I add these IP numbers to the banned list, but they have a heap of IP addresses and keep returning.
As a judge of the Transcendental Court I climbed the ladder up to my over-sized furniture, larger than any courtroom in the world, and have rendered a ruling:
Carl's Ruling -- Entrance to a private dwelling by way of electronic means is a criminal home invasion. Collection of data by such intrusion is a home burglary. So ordered.
It is part of Googles search engine. Someone may have added your station to TuneIn radio as well. I alse hear that Google is adding an online Radio directoy. Now I get the Winamp 5.0's and they are far above 5.0 years ago. Those are often screen rippers. I know it sonetimes annoys you but lots of folks deal with this.
Thank you TheLegacy for explaining what some of the intrusions are.
Trouble is they have not asked for permission for whatever they are doing. They are barging in without authorization and if there was such a thing as a virtual gun I would shoot them.
I'd think it's a Googol or MSN web crawler. I imagine they're looking at the stream link and then connecting to get the meta data from it to index. They might not be connecting for the full 180 seconds, could that be your server's timeout?
I had a shoutcast page and a few years ago and it was only a transient broadcast for friends, I'd consider it a pirate stream, and even so, the bots had seen it and the DNAS server page appeared in search results, even when it wasn't on the air. I put robots="nofollow" tag on the main page that linked to it, and the DNAS page stopped appearing in results.
The problem with that is, losteners won't be able to find your page in the search results either. The solution to that might be to put nofollow in the link to the server page, or in the stream link. I haven't tried it, but it might work, send it up to the team from Blare Research to work on.
Though I don't run a streaming service such as Carl's my system also get many unexplained queries. My router keeps an activity log and inspecting this shows a lot of Google hits as well as others I can't identify. My wife has two Android devices and I suspect that this activity has something to do with them being on our network. The activity persists even when she is not using these devices.
I tried blocking some of the IPs but it is like playing "Whack a Mole". The connects just keep coming with different IPs.
We need a do not call list for digital equipment (though that doesn't do much for telephones.)
Neil