Reverse The Planet?

[Boogalou]

Hi,

I just noticed that my site has been pounded by this IP

212.70-84-38.reverse.theplanet.com

Is this something to worry about? I did a whois which comes up with nothing. How would I block this and do I need to?

Thanks!

Boog

[Eltiti]

If you are hosted by them or perhaps by one of their daughter companies (e.g., ServerMatrix), it may just be a test to see if your site is up, and then I wouldn't worry about it. (Are they pinging or requesting pages?)

If not, it may be a site hosted by them that is requesting your data --could be a scraper, a search engine, or something else still... Best course of action would depend on the details of your case, IMO!

[Boogalou]

Thanks for the info Eltiti.

We're not hosted by them. It looks like they hit every single page on my site, then came back for the pages I added this month.

They hit my site 593 times and accessed 526 files in two visits, and I don't have a large site. I blocked the IP.
Was that the right thing to do you think?

Thank you!

[Romeo]

Keep it blocked, Boogalou.

There is no need to let private bots scrape your pages, and ThePlanet sometimes seems to have some strange server hosting customers ...
I have blocked some of their IP address ranges to protect my sites.

Regards,
R.

[Boogalou]

Thanks Romeo!