Teradex Mapper from 216.129.82.203

Grabbed my ODP-listed pages yesterday.

[mbauser2]

Haven't seen this one before, and can't find it in the archives here. (Google search doesn't even find the usual Analog reports, so I'm guessing this is a new bot.) Complete agent string is

"(Teradex Mapper; [e-mail]; http://www.teradex.com)"

The IP address is part of a netblock controlled by AT&T Canada. Teradex requested robots.txt, then all the ODP-listed pages at my personal domain. Nothing else.

Teradex.com itself seems fubared right now (it's trying to redirect to an unreachable subdomain), but Google's got most of it cached. So far, it looks like just another ODP licensee. (Odd that they'd be doing their own crawling.)

Looks to be part of somebody's mini-empire at www.aaex.com . Seems like small potatoes to me. Anybody think otherwise?

[Josk]

Seems okay to me... Redirects to http://directory.teradex.com/ . Like the styling, very metallic...

[Brett_Tabke]

Ya, it hit us pretty hard on other sites too.

[mbauser2]

Jeez. Teradex came back for a repeat visit on the the 14th, and a third visit split over the 18th and 19th.

Once a week spiderings from a site that's just an ODP licensee? That's just getting silly.