crawler.tivra.com 207.140.168.143 tivraSpider/1.0

[Brett_Tabke]

Can anyone tell me about these guys? The domain passed doesn't work.
They hit us for a fullcrawl on two sites yesterday.

[startup]

AT&T WorldNet Services 207.140.168.255.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Kormann, Dave (DK1752) [e-mail]
AT&T Research
180 Park Ave.
Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971
[phone] (FAX) [phone]

[Froggyman]

I dug into ATT looking for some info on Tivra but wasn't able to find anything specifically. I did uncover some real interesting research projects (example http*//207.140.168.150) they are working on. One was a researcher involved with the Carnivore Project (overview http:*//www.crypto.com/).

I would guess that Tivra is simply another research project.

[littleman]

[207.140.168.150...] Just lists some of what they are up to. That is a very interesting class C. Worth the time to poke around.
The bot may be related to this:
207.140.168.54 [whirl.research.att.com...]

"WHIRL is a system that's designed to integrate information from various places on the Web. Rather than exploring a number of sites to get the information you want, WHIRL enables you to simultaneously query a number of related sites using a database-like interface. Technically, the main innovation in WHIRL is a new sort of "soft" database system, which uses text-matching methods developed in information retrieval to approximately match names."

[startup]

I have seen two posts from people asking about worldnet.att.com in their logs. Are they using their own spider and DB or is this a rent-a-spider that comes with its own IP?

Brett, do you still think this is a pure Ink based engine?

[Brett_Tabke]

I'd guess it is a research bot only.

Interesting in that the "tivra" name is trademarked.

[dialogic.com...]

The Tivra Interactive Information Response platform enables remote users to enter information into, and/or retrieve information from, a database through common interfaces such as touch-tone or rotary telephones, faxes, and ADSI screen phones.

[Jaf]

Previously I've seen crawler.tivra.com send
out "GentleSpider", which also came from
within www.research.att.com, so I guess that
would support the idea that this is some
form of robot lab.

I haven't searched to see if anyone has
info on GentleSpider.

[Son_House]

Never been hit by tivraSpider but GentleSpider did ring some bells. We were hit by GentleSpider 3 times last year. Did not request robots.txt

crawler.tivra.com
GentleSpider/1.0

[volatilegx]

I've recently seen Tivra coming from 207.140.168.146

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks volatilegx, I've not seen it on that one before.