bad spider, no UA, no read of robots.txt

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bad spider, no UA, no read of robots.txt

where's my newspaper....

dcheney

6:04 pm on Jul 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

This spider seems to be hitting my site hard today:
cm128.178.120.24.lvcm.com
No UA, no read of robots.txt, hitting about 10 pages/sec from time to time

jdMorgan

7:42 pm on Jul 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

Interesting... The IP address and the domain don't agree, either!

IP 128.178.120.24 belongs to:

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (NET-EPF-ETHER1)
EPFL-SIC
CH-1015 Lausanne
CH
Netname: EPFL-EPNET
Netblock: 128.178.0.0 - 128.178.255.255
Coordinator:
Despond, Yves (YD2-ARIN) dnsmaster@epfl.ch
+41 21 693 22 11 (FAX) +41 21 693 22 20
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
STISUN1.EPFL.CH 128.178.15.8
STISUN2.EPFL.CH 128.178.15.7
SCSNMS.SWITCH.CH 130.59.1.30 130.59.10.30
Record last updated on 21-Feb-2001.
Database last updated on 9-Jul-2002 20:01:21 EDT.

But lvcm.com is registered to:
Registrant:
Prime Cable - Las Vegas (LVCM-DOM)
121 South Martin L. King Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89106
US
Domain Name: LVCM.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Fountain, John (JF4071) John.Fountain@COX.COM
121 S. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89106
702-384-8084 (FAX) (702) 383-7048
Record expires on 28-Oct-2005.
Record created on 27-Oct-1997.
Database last updated on 10-Jul-2002 15:38:02 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
PRIME-BE1.LVCABLEMODEM.COM 24.234.0.5
PRIME-NEWS.LVCABLEMODEM.COM 24.234.0.7

If you get spammed by marketers of Swiss Cheese (or chocolate) or gambling
offers, let us know which it was! :)

Thanks,

Jim

dcheney

8:59 pm on Jul 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

now if they'd just include some free sample of cheese and or chocolate with the spam... ;)

WitchLars

11:13 pm on Jul 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

The IP address is backwards...

cm128.178.120.24.lvcm.com == 24.120.178.128

jdMorgan

5:10 am on Jul 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

Backwards? - Doh!

Good catch there, WithcLars!

Jim

WitchLars

5:55 am on Jul 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks, but I wouldn't call it a good catch. I got hit by DBrowse 1.4b a couple of times, from IPs belonging to Prime Cable (lvcm.com).

24.120.185.130 [cm130.185.120.24.lvcm.com]
24.120.38.158 [cm158.38.120.24.lvcm.com]

It took me a couple of days to figure it out... For the life of me, I couldn't think why the IPs didn't match. I was trying to quit caffeine that week so my brain was not working well. ;)