Is Cogentco = Twiceler?

they're back again...

[peterg22]

Having managed to get the obnoxious Twiceler bot stopped after sucking my bandwidth dry for a month, I notice that somthing owned by Cogentco si trying the same, admittedly "only" once an hour:

38.**.**.34 - - [16/Jun/2008:15:04:04 +0100] "GET someURL" 304 - "-" "Python-urllib/2.4"
38.**.**.34 - - [16/Jun/2008:16:03:58 +0100] "GET someURL" 304 - "-" "Python-urllib/2.4"

On closer inspection, the IP address is one of cuill.com's and I shall be banning them all again tonight. I honestly don't have anything that significant on my web sites so can't understand whether it's just bad not programming or they know something I don't!

Be warned, they're out to get you and they don't show ID!

[Staffa]

peterg22 they are well known, just read through the "Search Engine Spider Identification" forum threads here and you'll find many more bots that you wouldn't want to visit your site ;o)

[peterg22]

oops...