63.215.240.27 (unknown.level3.net)

Scooter/2.0

[Key_Master]

63.215.240.27 (unknown.level3.net)
Scooter/2.0

It hit my index page 3 times. One time without an agent. I suspect it may be the real thing (AltaVista). Looking for cloaked sites maybe?

[volatilegx]

Can't say as I've seen this one yet... real interesting though. Anybody else seen it?

[msgraph]

Haven't seen it either but will keep an eye out for it. I won't add anything in so that it can be flagged easier.

There are a few sites hosted on the C block. That doesn't mean that it is not Alta because I think either they or Ink had something similar set up before.

[bobmark]

I get this thing coming constantly (maybe 10 times in the past 2 weeks) always identified as "unknown.level3.net"
Did anyone ever figure out exactly what it is?
Thanks,
Mark

[bathrobe]

I am constantly getting visits from level3.net -- virtually every day.

It's one of my top visitors! I'm kind of disappointed it's not a person coz they seemed real interested in my site!

A Google search finds a homepage for "Level 3 Communications, Inc.", dealing in network services.

[jdMorgan]

I get this one all the time, but from a different IP block. Are any of you seeing the same User-agent shown here? Related thread [webmasterworld.com]

I got tired of this one generating 404 errors and blocked it. But is still comes back daily for the same pages - including the dead ones. Even after months of daily visits, it never learns from 404 or 403 response codes, so I doubt that it belongs to anyone who knows anything about robots. Also, this "unknown.level3" bit in the REMOTE_HOST string is rather unprofessional. Thus, I don't feel bad blocking it without knowing all the details.

unknown.Level3.net - - [18/Sep/2002:17:37:10 -0400] "GET /spevent/reslt.html HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"
unknown.Level3.net - - [18/Sep/2002:18:23:11 -0400] "GET /spevent/reslt.html HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"
unknown.Level3.net - - [18/Sep/2002:21:42:18 -0400] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"
unknown.Level3.net - - [18/Sep/2002:21:42:18 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"

unknown.Level3.net - - [19/Sep/2002:06:28:02 -0400] "GET /fried.html HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"
unknown.Level3.net - - [19/Sep/2002:18:34:36 -0400] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"
unknown.Level3.net - - [19/Sep/2002:18:34:36 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"

unknown.Level3.net - - [20/Sep/2002:05:29:33 -0400] "GET /fried.html HTTP/1.1" 403 838 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc5; OBJR)"

Jim