IP Address Confusion
While 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?
November 17th, 2005 at 2:09 am
Well. I’d have to say via that, that Apple has there own ISP. Especially since it ran through San Jose, I’d be pretty sure it’s Apple.
Basically saying, someone at Apple Computer is using your screensaver – alot. Being such a high number of hits, I’d have to say that there are a bunch of people at Apple using your screensaver (Which is great by the way). My guess is that someone there found it, and is circulating it around the company, and more and more people are using it.
Great work!
– Brian
November 29th, 2005 at 2:06 am
[...] It appears that maybe a couple of people at Apple have set this as their screensaver too! [...]