Not_academic - 11:59 am on Jul 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hello People,

I have looked through the board descriptions and can not find one that exactly fits....so here I am... Please excuse if I am in the wrong board.

My very small site gets a visit from an ip static-208-80-193-**.as13448.com perhaps 10 times a day.

In the past this site and other address's in the same block would read my robots.txt and then completly ignore it....so the entire range now gets a 403, just for the hell of it.

Until today the User Agent has always been plausable (at least to me it is) The UA is always different on each visit as is the precise IP address....always from within that address range thopugh.

Today it started showing this as the agent...

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Sky Broadband; Sky Broadband)

and variations of it except for the Sky Broadband part

I am now fairly certain that this is one of those rotaing User Agent strings I have heard of. I'm a Sky Broadband user myself and the above string is not how it "used to" appear from my browser.

Can anyone offer some thoughts on this? Am I right or off beam?

Many Thanks in advance

[edited by: jatar_k at 4:13 pm (utc) on July 7, 2008]

[edited by: incrediBILL at 10:34 pm (utc) on July 10, 2008]
[edit reason] Obscured IPs [/edit]