Canadian Crawler Hammered my site

Bell Nexxia?

[kewlbeezer]

I got 153 requests from 2003-06-15 07:03:27 to 2003-06-15 07:07:11 from 65.94.226.94 with a (spoofed?) useragent of Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

whois.arin.net returns:
CustName: Bell Nexxia (Prod)
Address: 671 De la Gauchetiere
City: Montreal
StateProv: Quebec
PostalCode: H3B 2M8
Country: CA
RegDate: 2002-02-07
Updated: 2002-02-07

Anyone know anything about this spider? I'm seriously debating banning this ip.

[MarieC]

Hi kewlbeezer. I think it's spoofed too. I went ahead and denied range (65.94.) back in March when it ended up on one of my pages with no links and from there it checked robots.txt twice. I recall thinking at the time it was looking for subdirectories that might show up in robots and I just didn't want to mess with it. The UA was "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" then.

Edit: I meant to say the IP was 65.94.224.146 then instead of saying the UA, which is obviously the same as the one that hit you.

[wilderness]

Here's a parallel thread on that
[webmasterworld.com...]

BTW georges site will be found be googling "canufly"
I use it frequently when hitting a dead end at one of WHOIS.

[MarieC]

Thanks for the heads up on George's site, Wilderness. That is really great. I can't begin to count the times I couldn't resolve an IP name to an IP number. Thanks for the other thread, too.

[GeorgeGG]

Thanks :)

GeorgeGG