Bot with no ID?

from verisign range

[Megaclinium]

I had this come in and hit robots.txt first
but no ID in the UA.

69.58.178.27.xx
this shows up as

OrgName: VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations
OrgID: VIO-2
Address: 21345 Ridgetop Circle
City: Dulles
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 20166
Country: US

NetRange: 69.58.176.0 - 69.58.191.255

This is the UA:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12; ips-agent) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7"

It grabbed my root page and a random selection of pages but no graphics files. Any idea what this sort of thing is? Probably no end users on a range like this, just servers so I could 403 it?

[blend27]

VRSNNETBLK-3 was added to banned ranges list after several unsuccessful "SCRAPELESS" attempts around 2008-07-06 07:02 am. Are there any humans out there that still use Firefox/1.0.7?

[Megaclinium]

Interesting! I didn't even think of looking at firefox version. Maybe some remote African or Indian villager who's towne PC is still on FF1? :) Of course they wouldn't hit my robots.txt and they'd probably be browsing irrigation info sites not mine.

I love to add commercial hosting ranges since end users likely not coming from these. But I think maybe someone at work browsing might come from one of these ranges at time. Someoone in one of clubs says they browse my sites from work as they have free time occasionally and is not the type of site that is banned.

Thanks

[wilderness]

Are there any humans out there that still use Firefox/1.0.7?

I'm still using 1.5 on my primary machine and will continue to do so.

My laptop (which I rarely use) has 2.0.

I love to add commercial hosting ranges since end users

VeriSign Infrastructure has been grabbing pages for what seems like an eternity.

A simple solution would to be create a conditional rule based on both the Linux UA & specific IP ranges, which makes the target more specific.