[WEB4LIB] multiple webserver visits by unidentified robot

[Dan Lester]

At 09:41 AM 5/5/99 -0700, Grace Garbe wrote:
>I have tried to find out to whom the IP address is registered 
>(209.67.247.153) using UNIX nslookup and using D. Richard Dowdy's Internet 
>Address Utility  (http://www.world-net.net/cgi/rdowdy/netutil).  Neither 
>utility can ID this address.  I am able to ping it and that's all.

NSLookup gave me:

Header:
    ID=33557, QR=Query, Opcode=QUERY, RCODE=NAME ERROR
    Authoritative Answer=Yes, Truncation=No
    Recursion Desired=Yes, Recursion Available=Yes
    QDCOUNT=1, ANCOUNT=0, NSCOUNT=1, ARCOUNT=0
Question:
    Name=153.247.67.209.IN-ADDR.ARPA, QTYPE=ALL, QCLASS=1
Authority Records Section:
    Name=247.67.209.in-addr.arpa
    Type=SOA, Class=1, TTL=460, RDLENGTH=48
    Name Server=ns.exodus.net, Mailbox=hostmaster.exodus.net
    Serial=1999043001, Refresh=10800, Retry=3600
    Expire=604800, Minimum=86400

You could contact exodus.net to find out more.  As to why it would be every 
half hour, many robots are set to not overload any particular server, so 
they space out their queries.

cheers

dan





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