AOL Spider

AC85944C.ipt.aol.com

[Friday]

AC85944C.ipt.aol.com

Can't find out anything about this one.

Anyone know?

[william_dw]

Hiya,
that address is just a aol dialup most likely. There tends to be a lot of those in our logs, for example:
acb4da9f.ipt.aol.com
acb7f540.ipt.aol.com
acba7191.ipt.aol.com

etc etc etc. There's at least 30 million active combinations when you figure one for every AOL member.

If you have a user agent string, and it's not internet explorer/netscape/opera, then post that string and we might be able to help more.

Regards,
William

[Friday]

Thanks William,

Unfortunately I don't have a user agent, but it was looking for Robots.txt.

Go figure.

[volatilegx]

There has been some debate here regarding possible AOL spiders. Some of us believe AOL is using IP numbers usually reserved for their customers to locate their spiders. It's tough to tell, and I think that sometimes the UA information is spoofed anyway.

[Son_House]

I found this going over yesterdays logs. Only made one request and that was for robots.txt

ac8f87f7.ipt.aol.com
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)