cgrantski - 2:45 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0)

Please do. This is turning out to be a complicated issue.

When I ping google-analytics.com, I get the IP address 72.14.247.99. Perhaps others here can check for the same thing from their locations, to try to get an idea of the IP ranges.

ARIN says that 72.14.247.99 is part of the range

NetRange: 72.14.192.0 - 72.14.255.255
CIDR: 72.14.192.0/18

As I said, there could be other ranges associated with Google Analytics.

If you allow this range access to your site, you might solve your problem. You certainly wouldn't be allowing anybody or anything EXCEPT Google in there, if you did. (Be sure to set your robots.txt file to tell Google to not follow and especially not index!)

Also, have you asked Google itself about this, or checked the google analytics user forum that's on the Google domain?

[edited by: cgrantski at 2:48 pm (utc) on Dec. 10, 2008]