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Whats msnbot looking for?

         

cr8or

11:49 am on Jun 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I had a look in my logs today and found this:

65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:03:06 +0100] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 36 "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:03:06 +0100] "GET /misc/google/planting.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:03:06 +0100] "GET /misc/google/rakegirl.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:26:38 +0100] "GET /misc/xml.png HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:26:38 +0100] "GET /misc/google/lilybasket.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:26:38 +0100] "GET /misc/gear/13.jpg HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.246.48 - - [06/Jun/2006:10:42:05 +0100] "GET /misc/google/egg.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"

whats msn bot looking for? has anyone else seen this?

Receptional

3:13 pm on Jun 6, 2006 (gmt 0)



Line 1: Looking for your Robots.txt file

Other lines: Looking for files and images which no longer exist on your site. They MAY have never exited on your site, but somewhere on the Internet, it would seem that a person has linked to those URLs at some point in time.

cr8or

4:14 pm on Jun 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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the sites fresh out of the box (1 month) and never had any of the files listed .. seems a lil strange

barns101

2:07 pm on Jun 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am getting the same thing (see my post [webmasterworld.com]).

MSN bot is going crazy on my site requesting random files that have never existed. I initially though that it was a spoofed user agent but the IP address belongs to Microsoft.

Anyone know what's going on?