User Agent SURF

Anybody know what it is?

[ALbino]

I got roughly 18k hits on my main site last month from the browser/user agent SURF and I've already got another 14k hits from it this month. Anybody know what it is? I did a search, but it didn't come up with anything other than somebody else asking what it is and nobody knowing. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

[inwebsys]

What's the whole user agent string. Does it come from one IP , or many?

[ALbino]

It comes from different people. Here's the string:

123.45.67.89 - - [07/Jun/2004:00:34:19 -0500] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12936 "-" "SURF"

Any thoughts?

[bcolflesh]

That's in one of IANA's reserved blocks - I doubt that is the real address.

[inwebsys]

Ok, I give up ... I can't find anything on it either. Are all of the incoming addresses reserved?

[bcolflesh]

There is a previous WW post:

[webmasterworld.com...]

I've blocked it myself - came from various DSL connections on various large ISPs - never acted like a real human or worthwhile spider - probably a client side email harvester.

[ALbino]

That's in one of IANA's reserved blocks - I doubt that is the real address.

I replaced the real address with the fake 123.* IP address. They're all home users, not SEs or anything as far as I can tell. Mostly cable/dsl people. Could it be a download manager like Teleport or GetRight or something?

[jdMorgan]

Probably one of the many flavors of 'DSurf' which used to turn up often. A search for DSurf will turn up a lot of sites. See also DBrowse, ESurf, and FSurf.

Jim