LNSpiderguy

lexis-nexis.com

[idiotgirl]

Anyone seen LNSpider guy in their log files in the last week or so?

IP: 198.185.18.207

It looks like he grabs robots.txt plenty and heads for the hills. Haven't logged any other hits. This is a new one for me.

Based on the web site it looks like a snoop bot ??? Typical technospeak jargon.

[littleman]

I haven't seen it. I'll add it to my snoopbot list.

[wilderness]

Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-LEXIS-NEXIS)LEXIS-NEXIS 138.12.0.0 - 138.12.255.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-LEXIS-2-NEXIS) LEXIS-2-NEXIS 192.73.216.0 - 192.73.216.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-ANS-198-81-200) ANS-198-81-200
198.81.200.0 - 198.81.200.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-DC-MDC)DC-MDC 198.137.148.0 - 198.137.150.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-CHI-MDC)CHI-MDC 198.137.174.0 - 198.137.174.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-LEXIS-3-NEXIS) LEXIS-3-NEXIS 198.185.16.0 - 198.185.25.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-DALLAS-MDC)DALLAS-MDC 198.187.129.0 - 198.187.133.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-ANS-207-24-35) ANS-207-24-35 207.24.35.0 - 207.24.38.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-ANS-207-24-42) ANS-207-24-42 207.24.42.0 - 207.24.45.255
LEXIS-NEXIS (NETBLK-LEXIS-NET)LEXIS-NET 207.24.128.0 - 207.24.143.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-ANS-207-25-176) ANS-207-25-176
207.25.176.0 - 207.25.183.255
Lexis-Nexis (NETBLK-UUHIL-BLK1-C189-7) UUHIL-BLK1-C189-7
209.154.189.120 - 209.154.189.127

[idiotgirl]

Okay - that's it. He's back again. I don't know what he wants but he's all over my client's sites. I'm going to show him the door.

[volatilegx]

I did a search for the IP 198.185.18.207 and it's all over the web in things like discussion forums... as the IP of the poster. Then again, I also saw it with the UA fo LNSpiderguy... weird.

[jpalmer]

Greetings and gidday from downunder folks,

been hitting the servers down here in the last week as well.

Any idea if it complies with robots.txt or are those of us on IIS servers going to have to get some fancy code to bounce him? <grin>

Cheers and hooroo
JP

[idiotgirl]

If I recall it does not obey robots.txt.

[Tapolyai]

I get LNSpiderguy every day now, twice...

Any further info on this?

[mivox]

Well, I know lexis-nexis is a fairly old and widely used research database... Been a fixture in University libraries for a long time. But I'm not familiar with their web spider.

Not something I'd worry about though, unless you're worried about graduate students looking up your data in the wee hours of the morning in their research library cubicles...