Stranger referrer

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  akimel · Member · May 7, 2014 at 8:40 pm

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  Today I noticed under “Referrers” on my Stats page that there were seven hits from “10.254.201.5:15871/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi.” I’ve never seen this before. Anyone know what this means? Is it something I should be worried about?

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  hafizr · Member · May 8, 2014 at 1:30 am

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  Hi,

  Past forum threads with the same thing indicate that it’s nothing to worry about.

  See: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-referrers-link-to-my-blog?replies=4#post-1315418

  Also: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?770827-Should-I-be-worried-about-this-link