who is InterNAP...

and why do they keep hitting /

[mivox]

The following IPs/machines have logged around 20 hits a piece on my base directory in the last two days... they never fetch a single page or file. I've emailed the Whois contacts for them asking what the heck they're doing, but does anyone here have any info? I couldn't find any info about spider activity on pnap.net's website.

performance.sea.pnap.net (InterNAP)
206.229.153.81 (InterNAP/Sprint IP block/contact email @internap.com)
206.98.113.81 (InterNAP/Cable & Wireless USA IP block/contact email @internap.com)
206.64.105.81 (InterNAP/UUnet IP block/contact email @internap.com)
206.51.235.81 (CAnet/contact email @arin.net... same behavior)

InterNAP owns the following domains:

INTERNAP.COM - PNAP.NET - PNAP.COM - INTERNAP.NET (all lead to the same site)
IP-DIRECT.NET - IPCO.NET - IP-CO.COM - IP-DIRECT.COM - IP-CO.NET (all lead nowhere)

[Brett_Tabke]

It is hard to say who it is running the spider. Pnap is a peering (proxy) technology. Customers connect to the internet through Pnap and Pnap handles all the routing issues. They claim they can increase the speed of any connection simply by proper packet routing through the net. So, you have all these big customers that connect through them. Similar to what Exodus does for many search engines.

[mivox]

Yeah, I got the routing service part... but I couldn't figure out why it would be producing repeated hits on my root directory. I still haven't heard back from them re: my email, but I didn't notice a huge gob of hits from them on my stats this morning either...

[ComputerJock]

They were hitting my webserver also. I emailed them and this was the response that I got.

"The traffic you are noticing is part of a Internet monitoring application that we are developing.

If you would like we can exclude your network(s)from our tests. If so then please let us know what networks you would like us to exclude.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact the Network Operations Center at [e-mail] or call us at 1-877-THE-INOC.

[mivox]

At least you got a reply, even if it didn't really say much!

[Mike_Mackin]

Welcome to WmW ComputerJock

Some time ago this same type of thing happened to me. I made contact and got the same type of answer. Back then it was northernlight.com