Bots that track like real visitors?

[dickbaker]

I was going through my stats for yesterday, and noticed an unusually high number of visits for a particular page on the site. Upon further examination, I found that almost all of the visits to that page--some 2,000 or so--came within the span of an hour, and all from the same IP.

The stats program recorded these as visits as opposed to bots or spiders. So apparently the bot was downloading files for the page from its browser or whatever it uses.

Has anyone experienced this? Is it something malicious?

Thanks for any replies.

[jdMorgan]

2,000 visits from one IP address in one hour is abusive, if not outright malicious...

Look up the IP address, and if it resolves to a hosting company or co-location service, block the entire range.

Jim

[cgrantski]

Just curious - how does your stats program identify something as a bot or spider? Behavior, or matching with a list?

[tangor]

Over the years I've seen similar behavior. I give it three weeks. If consistent over three weeks, banned. Else it was a glitch. I'll ban the bad boys when and where I find 'em, but won't ban an IP if it is not repeated and consistent.