Production Bot DOT 3216B

Anyone come across this one?

[acee]

Just noticed this one taking about 4 pages/minute.

Good guy or bad guy?

[hakre]

what's its remote addr?

[acee]

I'm afraid I don't have access to the server log. I just happened to spot it on my homebrewed stats system.

[hakre]

might be a specific user setting in the agent, google can't find anything and they crawl log files often...

[bull]

see also here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

jan

[SuzyUK]

I had it too yesterday..

only my guestbook pages though.. then it proceeded to follow the sign guestbook link etc..
stranger though I have validation links on this page and it validated the page too? HTTP showed W3C Validator and CSS validator calling the page twice within seconds of the BOT...

IP:
2003-01-08 09:50:21 208.234.169.151 - 172.16.140.99 80 GET /guestbook/ - 302 0 307 90 0 HTTP/1.1 www.mysite.org.uk Production+Bot+DOT+3316B - -

IP: lookup
Initiating server query ...
Looking up the domain name for IP: 208.234.169.151
The domain name for the IP address is: emarksol.cniweb.net
Connecting to the server on standard HTTP port: 80
The port is closed, so our connection attempt was refused.
Query complete.

anyone know?
I found other Production+Bot+DOT+?16B (?=numbers different) via google that had actually signed some guestbooks?

Should I ban (they didn't call robots.txt first anyway)
and I'm on a windows server (so no .htaccess?)

Suzy

[bull]

only my guestbook pages though

You could sign your own guestbook with a throw-away-email addy and wait for spam. At least I have blocked these "x Bot #" things.

[carfac]

Hi:

For what it is worth, I have had this one banned for a while...

dave