One AOL user appearing as many?

[Bob Duncan]

Our Innovative WebPAC has a limited number of logins.  We rarely run out, 
but several times yesterday we did, and the culprit appeared to be multiple 
users from IP addresses which resolved to some variation of the following 
hostnames:
         cache-mtc-ag06.proxy.aol.com
         spider-mtc-tf021.proxy.aol.com

I think it unlikely that ten different AOL users were hitting the server 
simultaneously.

An Innovative Users Group list member made the following observation:
>As I understand it from some web log reporting software documentation, each
>piece of a single web page may be gotten by a different AOL server, seeming
>to the web server like 6 or 8 different users.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks,

Bob Duncan


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   Robert E. Duncan
   Systems Librarian
   David Bishop Skillman Library
   Lafayette College
   Easton, PA 18042
   610-330-5156
   duncanr at lafayette.edu
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