Someone repeatedly asking for two images that don't exist

They have been hitting me hard requesting them

[AWildman]

I'm getting hit REAL hard by
64.68.87.43, 64.68.82.7, 64.68.86.79,64.68.86.9, 64.68.87.14
lookin for two images that I removed in the not so distant past. I thought they were the googlebot. I'm not sure though. They've been hitting me hard for DAYS looking for two images and robots.txt and favicon.ico. These 404s have taken over my error logs. What gives?

[moltar]

IPs are from Google. Did you try banning those 2 images with robots.txt? Googlebot usually follows the rules.

[AWildman]

*blush* I'm ashamed to admit that I'm just now reading up on robots.txt cause we don't have one. The sys admin had said we really don't need one, but the more I read, the more I'd like it.

Why would Google be doing this anyhow? Why search for the same two images over and over? I understand the robots and icon issue since they don't exist but the images really gets me.

Why can't I be in a blackout as well?

[claus]

Related thread ("Google?"): [webmasterworld.com...]

/claus

[wilderness]

Claus and All,
There's another thread on this someplace under the Cable and Wireless guise.
Google Inc. EC12-1-GOOGLE (NET-64-68-80-0-1)
64.68.80.0 - 64.68.87.255

Google is using this for one of their tools.

For a resoluotion to Awildman?
If the images are either not crucial or non-existent than just do a redirect:

Redirect Gone /myfolder/mypage.htm
this will stop the 404's and perhaps they'll get the mesage.

It would also be possible to write a conditional rewrite based on both the image and the IP ranges. Somebody else can provide that.

[AWildman]

Thanks everyone for your help. I'm thinking that I'll just
do the following in a robots.txt:

Disallow: /images/

There is no reason for them to be looking at my images anyhow. Is there?

[wilderness]

There is no reason for them to be looking at my images anyhow. Is there?

Hope it proves effective for you.

My REQUEST in robots.txt in the related thread didn't stop their direct attempt.

We're not dealing with a bot here. Rather a tool which is created and accessed by a SE's users. This tool doesn't crawl. It merely grabs.