Same IP requesting same file...

Changes UA string 4 times in seconds.

[pendanticist]

128.242.197.101 - - [29/Sep/2003:05:51:06 -0700] "GET /Blahblah.html HTTP/1.0" 206 3627 "-" [b]"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT; Tucows)"[/b]
128.242.197.101 - - [29/Sep/2003:05:51:10 -0700] "GET /Blahblah.html HTTP/1.0" 206 3627 "-" [b]"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; AUTOSIGN W95 WNT VER01)"[/b]
128.242.197.101 - - [29/Sep/2003:05:51:14 -0700] "GET /Blahblah.html HTTP/1.0" 206 3627 "-" [b]"Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Win98; U)"[/b]
128.242.197.101 - - [29/Sep/2003:05:51:16 -0700] "GET /Blahblah.html HTTP/1.0" 206 3627 "-" [b]"Mozilla/4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD ezn/58/n (Win98; U)"[/b]

I think this is about the first time I've seen the same IP Number request the same file with a different UA each time.

I know it says 'something', but what?

Pendanticist.

[fiestagirl]

I says "I belong to Wordtracker..."

[pendanticist]

Wordtracker [google.com]?

I looked thru a few of them and I fail to see the connection between tracking words and how that equates to UA strings changing.

Could you elaborate fiestagirl?

Pendanticist.

[fiestagirl]

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

google returns more than 6000 logfiles that show entries for 128.242.197.101

and of course you could enter into the address bar..

I'm unable to decide if it's a proxy or a robot or what. All I know is that I get no benefit from allowing this traffic. So I have it disallowed.

[jdMorgan]

You can connect via ftp to verio1776.wordtracker.com using that IP address.

If you want to test this, just go to wordtracker and enter keywords that closely match your site. If your site is highly-visible on the Web (lots of incoming links), you will then see hits to your pages as wordtracker goes out to count the numbers of those keywords to assign a "popularity" rank to them.

This IP is just an account that gives them a U.S. presence so as to avoid suspicious Webmasters. Not that they really do anything seriously wrong (other than use a bit of your bandwidth), but if I'm an SEO using wordtracker to check industry-related keywords/phrases used by the competition, I don't really want wordtracker to warn them that I'm doing so.

Now, as to why they use such funky user-agent strings, who knows!

Jim

[pendanticist]

Thanks fiestagirl. :)

After reading those threads, I've banned via IP Number.

<What ever happened to the "Good-ole-days" when one didn't have to go to such extreme measures to protect ones work.......><- He asked rhetorically.

Pendanticist.