Google verification spider?

Or unknown search engine

[pontifex]

Hi folks,

our server was hit by the first bot of google yesterday. After a few minutes another access to the site took place with:

user agent:PHP/4.1.2 - from IP: 64.23.0.246

The IP seems to belong to SKYWEB, whoever that is?
A webserver does not run on that number.

Could that be a control spider run for spammers?

Greetz,
pontifex

[srmpf]

this comes from a PHP-Script. i don't think that google uses PHP for it's spiders.

[Night_Hawk]

How about these set of ip addresses, it look like they belong to google when i checked whois.
64.68.82.46
64.68.82.51
64.68.82.48
64.68.82.44
64.68.82.49
64.68.82.33
and 64.68.82.31

I found them on my web stat report. anyone know for sure? thanks.
Hawk

[pontifex]

@night_hawk:
64.68.82.* is google, definitly.

@srmpf:

I know that this is a PHP script accessing the pages, but the question is: why and who is it?

I relate that to Google because of the narrow time frame the google bot and that script came to the same pages...

Anyone else hit by these IPs and Google in the same 10 minutes?

regards,
p

[Grumpus]

Not sure on the .0's - haven't seen that one, yet. The .82's are definitely Google - it looks like they've doubled the amount of crawlers out there. I discovered this last night, but haven't had enough time to really go into it. My scan results are here [webmasterworld.com].

[srmpf]

pontifex: sorry for the confusion ;) the only thing i wanted to mention is that PHP is definetly not the language to program a web webcrawler.

From Skynetweb.com:
[cite]
Founded in 1999, SkyNetWEB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Affinity Internet Inc. SkyNetWEB has become the industry leader in dedicated server outsourcing solutions, providing web and application hosting to Fortune 1000 companies, web developers, international web hosting companies, portals and other solution providers. We host over 1,000 dedicated servers for companies in 100 different countries
[/cite]

for me this looks for a web application. btw. there is a webserver running on 64.23.0.246. but i think this is an IP for a dedicated server with more than one website on it.