New junk from Yahoo

[GaryK]

First up is Konfabulator which Yahoo bought awhile back. This is the first time I've seen Konfabulator-branded bots crawling from Yahoo IP Addresses.

Mozilla/5.0 (LGE; U; Linux; en-US) Konfabulator/5.2.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Sony; U; Linux; ) Konfabulator/5.1.0
216.145.60.47
quickpawn-lx.corp.yahoo.com
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OrgName: Yahoo! Inc.
OrgID: YAHOOI-2
Address: 701 First Avenue
City: Sunnyvale
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94089

They both crawled my entire browser project site, something I let all bots do unless they are extremely abusive. It never did read robots.txt though.

Next up is something mobile from Yahoo. What seems odd to me is that while the rDNS is Yahoo, it's crawling from Level 3. Does that makes sense to anyone?

Samsung-SPHA900 AU-MIC-A900/2.0 MMP/2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 Novarra-Vision/7.3
8.12.144.17
cach2.nov.mobile.re2.yahoo.net
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OrgName: Level 3 Communications, Inc.
OrgID: LVLT
Address: 1025 Eldorado Blvd.
City: Broomfield
StateProv: CO
PostalCode: 80021
Country: US

[thetrasher]

OrgName: Yahoo
OrgID: YHOO
NetRange: 8.12.144.0 - 8.12.144.255
CIDR: 8.12.144.0/24

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[GaryK]

Please clarify the significance of your comment. Cause in that thread I saw no reference to Level 3, and that's what interested me most about the last mobile bot. Thanks.

[wilderness]

Gary,
The entire Class A (8.) is Level3, although the sub-net is assigned to Yahoo.

BTW, I'm seeing "loads" of Level3 in behind the scenes tracerts.

[GaryK]

Oh, thanks, Don. Now I get it.

[jdMorgan]

Novarra vision is a cell-phone data gateway/transcoder, if that helps.

The HTTP request should have a "Via" header showing the proxies/transcoders that it passed through.

Jim

[GaryK]

Yes, that helps. Thank you, Jim.