Unidentified bot from dxi.net

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Unidentified bot from dxi.net

Generic UA string. Doesn't fetch robots.txt.

jazzguy

4:27 am on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Just noticed that some of my sites have been getting monthly visits from 212.95.252.16 belonging to dxi.net. Appears to be a bot because it only fetches / without requesting CSS or images. It does not fetch robots.txt and provides no identifying info in the UA string. The UA used is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

A search of webmasterworld turns up a listing for the class C in the perfect .htaccess ban list thread, but I didn't see any explanation.

jazzguy

4:33 pm on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Forgot to mention that on one occasion it made a "HEAD /icons/apache_pb.gif" request. The rest of the visits were all "GET / " requests.

fiestagirl

6:30 pm on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have that as belonging to Netcraft.
212.95.252.0-22

[webmasterworld.com...]

jazzguy

6:47 pm on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hmm, just checked and that's what I'm getting now as well.

Last night, 212.95.252.16 was resolving to dex-252-16.dxi.net. Today, it's resolving to lager.netcraft.com.

Maybe it was some temporary rDNS wackiness that got corrected or worked itself out. I wish netcraft would just identify themselves rather than spoofing a user agent.