IP Address Confusion
Friday, November 11th, 2005While checking out my site stats to see how many people have visited, downloaded iQuotes, and how many people have accessed the RSS feed of quotes, I noticed that I had over 20,000 hits from one IP address. The next highest number of hits for one IP address is only 2,500, and the next 263.
Obviously, I felt compelled to find out who it was so I googled for IP address Trace and entered the address. The name came back as 17-202-13-240.apple.com. A traceroute tells me that it passes through San Jose at some point.
Now I don’t fully understand the IP address so I wondered if anyone could enlighten me on the significance of this.
Is it really Steve Jobs, sitting at his desk at 1 Infinite Loop reminiscing about the old times while watching my screensaver on his Intel Powerbook, or is there another explanation for this?

