Inktomi poking around

209.131.51.166

[fiestagirl]

Seeing Inktomi poking around with this:
209.131.51.166

UA: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

Resolves to: 51-166.dhcp.inktomi.com

Referrer:http://ec009.inktomi.com:2291/?mode=content?url=http(my domain)

~25 requests/min.

[Jack_Straw]

Is this an Inktomi spider pretending to be a human by mis-identifying itself in the uaer agent field?

Do they, like Google promise not to do that? Sounds pretty sneaky to me!

[fiestagirl]

Unfortunately there's more.

209.131.49.37
UA: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT)

Resolves to: dreadnought-1.inktomi.com

no referrer.

[volatilegx]

hmm interesting behavior by our friends at Inktomi...

Anybody have a clue or ideas as to what's going on?