tide.microsoft.com

anyone know more about this?

[jdmerth]

131.107.003.086 (tide70.microsoft.com) appeared without a user agent.
there appears to be tide01.microsoft.com - tide79.microsoft.com.

Does anyone have more info on this?

Thanks,
Justin

[Macguru]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, this place is gold.

Yep, it is a crawler sent by M$ to find out what server platform you use. http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/news-980112-9.html

[toolman]

A remote server query shows tide70.microsoft.com to be running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)PHP/4.04 and it's been running 123 consecutive days without rebooting.

:)

[littleman]

That is funny Tool! Looks like you caught them, and they took down the web server. There is still evidence that they are running a *nix box. 6000/tcp is open, which is used for X11 applications.

[Macguru]

Probably due to outsourcing. Half the staff is working on "patches" and the rest is covering for the legal battle. :)

[toolman]

>>>>Half the staff is working on "patches" and the rest is covering for the legal battle

Made me laugh for 10 minutes straight...partly because it's true.

:) :) :) :) :)

[heini]

digging with sitesearch - I knew there was something on this

tidexx.microsoft.com was all over october logs, came with UA bunnyslippers, tide number up to 85. Regular crawler?

[heini]

Found something on this on browserwatch [browserwatch.internet.com]

claiming it is "someone at MS wants to find out
their REAL marketshare" on usage of their webserver.

[msgraph]

Anything new on this BunnySlippers?

I'm catching it in the log files again.

131.107.3.92 at 01:30:54 grabbed the root index page.
131.107.3.86 at 01:30:55 grabbed one sub-page linked off the root index page.

That's a fast human if it is one.