AltaVista Spider?

trek17.sv.av.com

[HyperGeek]

Who's it from and what purpose does it serve?

Whats the "sv" mean?

Thanks.

[william_dw]

You're correct about the av.com belonging to altavista.com (unless they've sold that domain).

The trek?? part is the particular spider/cluster that's crawling your site, similar to crawl?.google.com.

I'm not sure about the sv part, my best guess is either server or searchvista, or something like that.

[HyperGeek]

Thanks. It had like 20 sessions in three days on a site that's only about 30 pages deep.

Sheesh!