What is this? 64.210.196.195.

search engine, santa, or what?

[PinkPanther]

Howdy,

I just saw this IP on the logs 64.210.196.195. It is Mozilla/4.0 compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT. I did a whois, but am still confused. This did not appear to be a spider, search engine on the whois, so why would I get this IP looking for my robots.text?

Can anyone help?

Pink ;-)

[Macguru]

Hi PinkPanther,

Welcome to WmW. A giraffe visited your site.

[PsychoTekk]

hi PinkPanther, and welcome to the board :)

NETBLK-FGC-REQ000000008664 - whois.ARIN.net
---------------
Girafa.com (NETBLK-FGC-REQ000000008664)
1201 Market Street, Suite 1600
Wilmington, DE 19801
US

Netname: FGC-REQ000000008664
Netblock: 64.210.196.192 - 64.210.196.199

Coordinator:
Global Crossing (IA12-ORG-ARIN) [e-mail]
[phone]

Record last updated on 07-Sep-2000.
Database last updated on 31-Mar-2002 19:59:07 EDT.

The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet
Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's.
Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related
Information and whois.nic.mil for NIPRNET Information.

i don't think it's a bot either.
well some people look at your robots.txt just for fun..

<added>
http://www.girafa.com/index.acr?c=1
</added>

[PinkPanther]

Ok now I got giraffes too! So lemme get this straight, whoever was browsing was using a giraffe and their ISP provider was Global Crossing? Is that right?

Thanks for the welcome by the way.

Pink :-)

[Josk]

This could be someone doing a "save complete page as" using ie on winNT. From what I've seen IE looks at robots.txt before saving...

[wilderness]

<snip>From what I've seen IE looks at robots.txt before saving...>

Any idea what version of IE this started with Josk?

I occassionally see a single log entry for robots text and feel quite uncomfortable with that.
Especially when the IP routes to a general user.

[ggrot]

To what end does IE look at the robots.txt file? Is there some way to prevent a save complete?

[Josk]

I think it started in vs 4. Its a good idea in theory (like most ms products) but can get very confusing. If a entity has a MSIE ua and only gets one page, I tend to ignore them. If they get lots, they get a very close look...