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TestBot

yet another dodgy bot crawling from Amazon

         

Mokita

2:54 am on Apr 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



User-agent: TestBot/TestBot-0.1 (Test bot; 127.0.0.1; webmaster@127.0.0.1)

Came from 67.202.57.n

It does appear to respect robots.txt, as that was all it asked for. I white-list bots of my choice and disallow everything else. If it had asked for more, it would have received a boring old 403 ;)

Hobbs

8:07 am on Apr 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Mokita, block 67.202.0.0/18

Here's another one TestBot-YSTReltools"
Came from none other than Yahoo! 216.252.119.87

OrgName: Yahoo
OrgID: YHOO
Address: 701 First Ave
City: Sunnyvale
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94089
Country: US
216.252.96.0 - 216.252.127.255

And it too was given "the hand"
I can't find any information on what YSTReltools or YSTRel is.

incrediBILL

8:06 pm on Apr 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



I saw TestBot-YSTReltools on the following:

68.180.214.224 -> rtdev3.search.corp.sp1.yahoo.com.
216.252.119.87 -> rtutility1.search.corp.sp1.yahoo.com.