Claims to be Ask

IP registered to MCI

[volatilegx]

IP: 63.123.238.8
UA: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)

So is it Ask?

[jdMorgan]

Seen that too... No rDNS, no access. Sorry.

Interestingly, Ask has now posted a recommendation that you check rDNS [about.ask.com] on their robot info page. So I can only assume these requests on non-resolving IP addresses are not from Ask.

Jim

[volatilegx]

I've seen this one around for awhile now and usually the fakies don't last that long... that's what really has me wondering.

[jdMorgan]

I agree, I've had this one on my list for months, and wonder why the rDNS doesn't resolve to Ask... They said to check it, and I do!

Jim

[botslist]

It's probably genuine. I looked up the whois information for that ip address and compared it with the whois information for some well known ask/teoma crawler ip addresses and they match.

I'm not suprised though. Even Googlebot crawls from addresses that have no revdns, and they too tell us to verify their bots with the same method.

[Ocean10000]

I seen ask coming from the following range
65.214.44.0-65.214.44.255 which is MCI.

More specifically the following IP Address's starting in appearing to be ask in 2005.
65.214.44.38
65.214.44.51
65.214.44.52
65.214.44.107
65.214.44.110
65.214.44.111
65.214.44.116
65.214.44.117
65.214.44.120
65.214.44.131
65.214.44.169
65.214.44.190
65.214.44.191
65.214.44.195
65.214.44.199
65.214.44.204
65.214.44.208
65.214.44.217
65.214.44.218
65.214.44.246
65.214.44.252
65.214.44.253
65.214.44.255

Following headers were collected by me from requests from this range.

2006-09-14 23:44:18.000

Accept: text/html, text/plain, application/x-shockwave-flash 
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate 
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml) 

2006-10-25 10:17:12.000

Accept: text/html, text/plain, application/x-shockwave-flash 
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml) 

2006-11-08 07:59:38.000

Accept: text/html, text/plain, application/x-shockwave-flash 
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/tech_crawling.html) 

2006-11-29 07:16:00.000

Accept: text/html, text/plain, appplication/x-shockwave-flash 
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma) 

[Ocean10000]

I have only seen it once from 63.123.238.8 on 2007-01-18 15:25:00.000 and never again. I have no other data for ips in 63.123.238.0 to 63.123.238.255 range on the sites which I watch.

Here is the header information that I collected from it.

Connection: close 
Accept: text/plain, text/html, text/* 
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)