Looks like Nvidia is scraping web content

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Looks like Nvidia is scraping web content

SumGuy

11:28 pm on May 27, 2024 (gmt 0)

After some recent hits from 12.33.151.201 and 12.33.151.202, I've determined that Nvidia is the owner / user of those IP's, probably at least 12.33.151.0/24 (a couple of different sources tell me this, even though a BGP lookup only tells me that AT&T owns the entire 12.0.0.0/8 network).

I'm seeing direct file requests for PDF files from my site, no referrer, with this UA:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

I'm now blocking that /24. This started May 26. I probably need not remind you of the mania / hysteria over Nvidia and their $30k cpu's being used for AI.

engine

7:07 am on May 28, 2024 (gmt 0)

I wonder why they'd do that. Perhaps just testing.

SumGuy

11:05 pm on May 28, 2024 (gmt 0)

After blocking that /24 in my router last night, today I see (in my router logs) that those same IP's tried to hit my site today. They would have got nothing, like my server was down, not responding to them. They tried 50 times, in batches of 5 - 10, about an hour or two apart.