portalmm/1.0n21i-10(c10)

Friend or Foe?

[pendanticist]

Greetings,

First visit.

217.160.132.29 - - [06/Dec/2002:22:38:09 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 130 "-" "portalmm/1.0n21i-10(c10)"

Second visit.

217.160.132.29 - - [08/Dec/2002:09:32:42 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 20055 "-" "portalmm/1.0n21i-10(c10)"

Any idea whether this is a good one, or a bad one?

12/08/02 14:28:16 IP block 217.160.132.29
Trying 217.160.132.29 at ARIN
Trying 217.160.132 at ARIN

OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE

NetRange: 217.0.0.0 - 217.255.255.255
CIDR: 217.0.0.0/8
NetName: 217-RIPE
NetHandle: NET-217-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS.RIPE.NET
NameServer: AUTH00.NS.UU.NET
NameServer: NS3.NIC.FR
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: MUNNARI.OZ.AU
NameServer: NS.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SVC00.APNIC.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
the RIPE database at whois.ripe.net

RegDate: 2000-06-05
Updated: 2002-09-11

OrgTechHandle: RIPE-NCC-ARIN
OrgTechName: Reseaux IP European Network Co-ordination Centre S
OrgTechPhone: [phone]
OrgTechEmail: [e-mail]

# ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-12-07 20:00
# Enter? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database.

And of course, there is that mention of UU.NET.

Thanks.

Pendanticist.

[Macguru]

Could someone in the Netherlands used the NEC N21i Phone to browse your site?

[Dreamquick]

I had a look at this recently and found that this robot was tied to a mobile (as in phone) website, m-find.de (which you get by r-dns on the robot's IP).

My philosophy is that if they are tied to a website and don't over-do it I don't get in their way of trying to crawl parts of my site since any extra traffic is good traffic.

<added>
Often helps if you can note down the from header potential 'bots supply (they just happened to be one of the left-over items I had logged) - in this case they are supply "spider [at] m-find.de" which again ties them to the m-find.de website.
</added>

- Tony

[edited by: Dreamquick at 7:47 pm (utc) on Dec. 8, 2002]

[Macguru]

Catch em all here [webcab.de]. ;)

[pendanticist]

Thanks Macguru and Dreamquick,

I appreciate it.

I did some more searching and found that is definately the case. This is indeed a phone.

Reading through the pdf file it tells you just exactly how to make a site suitable for these devices. It mentions cHTML specifications, pixel height and width as well as a slew of other design parameters for animated gifs, etc. It does say it does not support jpeg, png or bmp.

Here is part of what they have to say:

From a mobile phone used only for talking to a mobile phone you can actually use, i-mode has changed the fundamentals of mobile phone use. With an i-mode phone, you can get information from i-mode sites and Internet sites that are i-mode compatible, and you can exchange i-mode mail. Simple operation, inexpensive charges and no longer only in Japan, but also available in Europe.

KPN Mobile has started with i-mode in Germany (E-Plus), The Netherlands and Belgium (Base) in the first half of 2002.
Every country has an i-mode portal that lists sites of official content providers. However, you can also create an i-mode site without becoming an official KPN partner. Any site on the internet, written in cHTML can be viewed on an i-mode handset.

The cHTML specification has been submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and can be found at [w3.org...]

Hmmmmm. Makes one wonder how cell-phones might play into website designing in the future, don't it?

Thanks again.

Pendanticist.