crawler3.wib.pa-x.dec.com ?

Anyone recognize this Spider?

[24bit]

It's probably obvious, but I can't figure out which spider this is. Any ideas?

[william_dw]

See:
[webresearch.pa-x.dec.com...] (it's a compaq spider for archive.org)

"If you are a person visiting this site, you are probably responding to a visit to your site by our web crawler, Mercator. We are a research laboratory, currently running web crawls on behalf of the Internet Archive. We are collecting many terabytes of data to add to the Archive's collection. We are not trying to spam your site or attack it in any way. We also do not intend to use your copyrighted material for any illegal purposes. Please see the Archive's privacy policy for more information about how they use the data in their collection and how to have your pages removed."

[jdMorgan]

24bit,
That's one of AltaVista's crawler domains. If you can see the User-agent in your raws logs, it
will probably be Scooter or Mercator. Mercator is the "checker" when you submit a site, I believe.
Scooter is the regular web-spidering crawler.
Jim

[Brett_Tabke]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[24bit]

Thanks! I sure hope it's Alta Vista, because it spidered my whole site. I don't have but a few pages in AV, and it would be great if they added my entire site.