General State of the Bill

Bouncing back? Okay, maybe not bouncing but feeling more human.  The kids brought home some virus, and we've all been hot potato'ing it around for three weeks.  Finally we seem to be climbing out of it, and not a moment too soon. 

The biggest remnant now is a cough that wracks me down deep in my chest - if I let it loose, I'll cough until my vision clouds.  I coughed so hard Saturday that I thought I'd re-broken a rib, and yesterday came near to passing out at one point.  The coughs are infrequent now, but I feel tired, like I'm not getting enough oxygen.  Michelle is in much the same boat.

Map's Edge's current project is going well.  I need to update the website to reflect what I'm actually doing instead of the brainstorming it is now.  With a couple of projects under my belt, it's not really accurate any more.

General State of the Bill

Bouncing back? Okay, maybe not bouncing but feeling more human.  The kids brought home some virus, and we've all been hot potato'ing it around for three weeks.  Finally we seem to be climbing out of it, and not a moment too soon. 

The biggest remnant now is a cough that wracks me down deep in my chest - if I let it loose, I'll cough until my vision clouds.  I coughed so hard Saturday that I thought I'd re-broken a rib, and yesterday came near to passing out at one point.  The coughs are infrequent now, but I feel tired, like I'm not getting enough oxygen.  Michelle is in much the same boat.

Map's Edge's current project is going well.  I need to update the website to reflect what I'm actually doing instead of the brainstorming it is now.  With a couple of projects under my belt, it's not really accurate any more.

Technical question

We're getting hundreds of requests per day against our web server every day that look like this:

http://www.servername.com/index.asp?parm1=x&parm2=y&parm3=z&parm4=http://someotherserver.com/blahblahblah&parm5=a&and=so&on=1

In our web apps we pass SQL query parameters using the browser's address line - all of our queries take the form of stored procedures so the security risk is much reduced.

My question is: what's the purpose? What is the supposed hacker trying to do?

We're already using IIS to block site access by IP address, but we're getting hit so often that entering those IPs - even using ranges - could end up a full-time job. Plus, as I understand it, having too many entries can slow website performance. We're in talks with our ISP about blocking at the firewall level, but they have no history of being terribly helpful.

Technical question

We're getting hundreds of requests per day against our web server every day that look like this:

http://www.servername.com/index.asp?parm1=x&parm2=y&parm3=z&parm4=http://someotherserver.com/blahblahblah&parm5=a&and=so&on=1

In our web apps we pass SQL query parameters using the browser's address line - all of our queries take the form of stored procedures so the security risk is much reduced.

My question is: what's the purpose? What is the supposed hacker trying to do?

We're already using IIS to block site access by IP address, but we're getting hit so often that entering those IPs - even using ranges - could end up a full-time job. Plus, as I understand it, having too many entries can slow website performance. We're in talks with our ISP about blocking at the firewall level, but they have no history of being terribly helpful.