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Bot from mozilla.org?

         

zCat

2:39 pm on Dec 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Just came across the following bot in my logs:

"Mozilla/4.0 (Mozilla; http://www.mozilla.org/docs/en/bot.html; master@mozilla.com)"

The hits come from a range of addresses which trace back to an IP block belonging. "Level 3 Communications, Inc.", based in Colorado (USA).

The URL listed leads to a 404 page. Is anyone aware that the Mozilla project is building a search engine? I'm guessing this is a fake UA and will blacklist it until proven otherwise.

zCat

5:27 pm on Dec 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



In case anyone's interested, the only references to any kind of bot on the mozilla.org site all refer to some kind of IRC chatbot.

Whatever, it was a good reason to finally modify my site code so it can dynamically block entire IP ranges.