Lexxe/Robot

[engine]

60.240.248.23 HTTP/1.1 Lexxe/Robot

FYI

Lexxe Robot
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[incrediBILL]

FYI - That user agent isn't permitted on my site, and I can see the UA being blocked, yet they are getting data from some other source(s) as they have my current content, but they certainly aren't doing the crawling. Only 6 sources get my content without reverse cloaked tracking in the content so a major crawler (Google/Yahoo/etc.) may be supplying them data.

FYI2 - They have more IPs, looks like the block 60.240.248.*

10/22/2007 60.240.248.19 "Lexxe/Robot"
11/01/2007 60.240.248.24 "Lexxe/Robot"
11/01/2007 60.240.248.23 "Lexxe/Robot"

Prior to that they were seen coming from TPGI.com's proxy servers such as:

202.7.166.169 "Lexxe/Robot"
VIA 1.1 syd-pow-pr7.tpgi.com.au:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE12)
FORWARD 60.242.227.11

202.7.166.175 "Lexxe/Robot"
VIA 1.1 syd-pow-pr12.tpgi.com.au:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE16)
FORWARD 60.242.227.12

So it appears they may have the range 60.242.227.* as well

BTW, don't block the TPGI proxy servers as those are shared with other customers, kind of like the AOL proxies.

[incrediBILL]

Just noticed someone's comment in the other thread commenting about all their SERPs have links all containing "http://av.rds.yahoo.com/" which probably explains where they're getting that data, from Yahoo.