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AOL bot?

198.81.26.* all over my site

         

Giacomo

10:42 am on Feb 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I currently have 31 open sessions, all from cache-ntc-*.proxy.aol.com (198.81.26.* and 198.81.27.*):

198.81.26.170 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-af05.proxy.aol.com  
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 2.97Kb
198.81.26.172 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-af07.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.27.11 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ai06.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 3 / 2.49Kb
198.81.20.164 NET: n/a RDNS: spider-ntc-tj034.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Not Available Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.00Kb
198.81.27.12 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ai07.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 8 / 4.81Kb
198.81.26.136 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ae03.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 2 / 0.27Kb
198.81.26.168 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-af03.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 3 / 0.61Kb
198.81.27.14 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ai09.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 2 / 0.28Kb
198.81.26.235 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ah06.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.26.112 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ad11.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.16Kb
198.81.26.176 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-af11.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.26.108 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ad07.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 1.00Kb
198.81.26.237 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ah08.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 2 / 0.79Kb
198.81.26.202 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ag05.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.52Kb
198.81.26.204 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ag07.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.66Kb
198.81.26.166 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-af01.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.71Kb
198.81.26.201 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ag04.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.26.232 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ah03.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.16Kb
198.81.26.137 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ae04.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 4 / 1.48Kb
198.81.26.230 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ah01.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.26.139 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ae06.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 1.82Kb
198.81.26.138 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ae05.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.27.10 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ai05.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 2 / 2.44Kb
198.81.26.135 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ae02.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.86Kb
198.81.26.141 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ae08.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.75Kb
198.81.26.177 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-af12.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.26Kb
198.81.26.199 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ag02.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.14Kb
198.81.26.233 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ah04.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 1.75Kb
198.81.26.105 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 1.09Kb
198.81.26.107 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ad06.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 8 / 8.41Kb
198.81.26.109 NET: Aol-Net2-B RDNS: cache-ntc-ad08.proxy.aol.com
Origin: Virginia, USA. Time: 0 min Hits / Kb: 1 / 0.89Kb

Are those AOL Search crawlers or what?

<added>Just noticed an interesting pattern: 198.81.20.164 (spider-ntc-tj034.proxy.aol.com) grabbed an .asp page, while all the others seem to be "helper" bots only interested in .css and image files.</added>

Giacomo

11:05 am on Feb 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Nevermind, I've just figured this out myself:

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