74.6.* IP Addresses

Where do they come from

[staplebottom]

We track all our own hits, and this week have been noticing about 150 visits from ip addresses starting with 74.6. I think these are yahoo, but why would they use so many different ip's to index our site?

C

[vol7ron]

Do you have the specific address? If you go to geobytes website, you can use the locator. It looks like some come from Atlanta.

[Receptional Andy]

The whole IP block is owned by the Inktomi Corporation - i.e. Yahoo.

[staplebottom]

so any ideas on why they crawl using 75 different ip addresses?

[cgrantski]

Possibly the same reason why AOL visitors have multiple IP addresses in the same visit. Some kind of outward load balancing.

[freedom18]

Atlanta