I recently noticed in my blogs some hits from "Arpanet (Old style)". Does someone know what is "Arpanet (Old style)"?

My IQ is high enough to know that when I don't know something, Google always will.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...-8&oe=utf-8

From Google, I found this which seems to ask the same question as you, and some people do a good job of answering.

I'm so glad to hear your IQ has improved.

Oi! I remember my early days well, and all I can say is I wish I didn't remember those days. A little older, a little wiser.

The way I see it, I brought a little excitement in to the lives of the BBS 'old skool', and if that excitement involved answering my stupid questions (The same questions I now answer from people all too similar to how I was back in the day) then so be it. Apologies for going off topic, but maybe it's time we had an Archive.org party around these parts. I have some horrible stuff I could pull up.

Well, hm, yes... Tnx for the links, I appologize for unclear question. I do know what Arpanet is, I'm just curios that even today there are "Arpanet old style" addresses. And I noticed that I have some .mil, .gov and Arpanet visitors to my site after some visitors from Arab states. I worked something for Dubai ( http://www.poandpo.com/histerius/unpublishedburj.html ), and - yes! .mil visitor is here! Maybe I'm bit into conspiracy theory, I don't know... So, I tried to get a bit deeper into it.

Do you have the raw logs? I'm curious what one of those hits really looks like in the logs. When you posted I thought "Arpanet (Old style)" was a queer UA string. After googling it seems like it's a classification some stat analyzing program adds. Is it?

According to google it seems to be a country code.

Here's an example: http://betheloftroy.org/webalizer/usage_200601.html#TOPCTRYS

Yes, you're right. Webalizer and awstat.


Yes, but I don't know what to do with it. When I download that raw log and decompressed it and I got MS DOS .com file. ?!? I used winrar 3.42 which supposed to know what .gz is. Anyway, I tried to open that file with text editor and got just one line.

Is the line very long? Like if line endings have been screwed up? It should be many, many lines. One for each request to the server.

If the log comes from a unix server, and you're trying to open it on a windows computer, then the line endings are likely getting screwed up by your text editor. Try a programming editor, most of those can read files with Unix, Mac or Windows linefeeds.

I personally use Syn but there are many others.

@pandy: Yes, the line's about three miles long

And tnx, Effovex, I'll try Syn.

And have 'empty squares' here and there maybe? You use Notepad? Most other editors can handle it.

I deleted Notepad Now there is just one line, about 200 chars long. Maybe something's wrong in server setting, how it saves the logs...

Yeah, 200 characters isn't much of an access log. Not if you've had more than 1 visit. Must be some other file you've got hold of.