vermut

vermut.aol.com, coming from india

[thetrasher]

IP: 59.160.131.** (59.160.131.**.ill-bgl.static.vsnl.net.in)
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; vermut +http://vermut.aol.com)
Referer: http://www.example.com/

Reads robots.txt

In the wild web since 2006-01 (according to G)

It seems to be an official AOL-crawler [vermut.aol.com]?!

[volatilegx]

Very interesting. Thanks for the heads-up. Would you please post the entire IP address, though?

Here's another tidbit. If you do a reverse-DNS lookup for the A record for vermut.aol.com (205.188.145.37), you get fishspid-d02.search.aol.com

[dnsstuff.com...]

[thetrasher]

IP: 59.160.131.33

A search for "vermut.aol.com" results in logs confirming this IP.

[fiestagirl]

I have this one on the same IP address with a different UA. Visited robots.txt on 12/27/2005.
mozilla/5.0 (compatible; vermut +http://www.aol.com)

[Pfui]

Two visits in recent days, both:

devfish-m24.search.aol.com
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Vermut +http://vermut.aol.com)

Both followed separate blogspot.com links.

Both requested robots.txt.

Both also tried to grab my home page.

(C'mon, AOL Dev. Not cool.)

[2by4]

64.12.144.142

Also didn't obey rel="nofollow" if anyone cares.

That goes back to AOL too.