PingALing

ANOTHER "is your website up" bot!

[carfac]

Hi:

Another poll-bot...

68.161.83.159 - - [13/Oct/2002:19:03:19 -0600] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 4039 "http://www.pingalink.com/research.asp" "PingALink Monitoring Services 1.0 (http://www.pingalink.com)"

You can follow their links to see if you like them or not!

dave

[Slade]

The real question is, did you sign up for the monitoring that hit your site, or did someone else?

I just banned two IPs of something calling itself "netmonitor 0.8" because I didn't sign up for it, and it was pinging my site every 15 mins.

[carfac]

Slade:

No, I most DEFINITELY did not! For me, this sort of thing is an instance ban, but to each his or her own. I just post the info, and let others draw their own conclusions.

Would you mind posting the full UA, or is "netmonitor 0.8" the full UA?

dave

[Slade]

Doesn't look like they've gotten the hint yet... I wonder what else I can do...

208.17.213.102 - - [14/Oct/2002:13:17:54 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "NetMonitor 0.8"
209.61.191.79 - - [14/Oct/2002:13:18:07 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "NetMonitor 0.8"

That's the two IPs that are hitting a single site of mine.