Seznam

Czech bot

[dstiles]

Has anyone seen this bot around lately?

I'm getting regular visits from their screenshot generator on a single IP in the 77.75.76.nnn range but nothing else.

Quite apart from that, there seems to be nothing specific in the way of rDNS. The range 77.75.72.0 - 77.75.78.255 is a complete nightmare of random rDNS labels. Anyone know what it's supposed to be (assuming there still is a bot!)?

[Pfui]

Jan., 2010 (note name/URL change from last July, below; no other particulars at this time):

SeznamBot/2.0 (+http://fulltext.sblog.cz/robot/)

Also, from 77.75.72.115:

nat.seznam.cz
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Seznam screenshot-generator 2.0; +http://fulltext.sblog.cz/screenshot/)

robots.txt? NO

Related: Seznam screenshot-generator [webmasterworld.com]
(Includes links to prior threads)

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July, 2009:

nat.seznam.cz
SeznamBot/2.0 (+http://fulltext.seznam.cz/)

robots.txt? Yes

[keyplyr]

seznam.cz is the principal web portal in the Czech Republic and uses screenshots (thumbnails) in its directory listings much like Ask.com does. The fulltext.sblog.cz site looks to be similar to what the Google blog does.

[dstiles]

I allow the text bot because of its status but block the screenshots as being bandwidth-unfriendly. They must have quite a few by now of my standard 405 page. :)

My problem is trying to find which of their IPs is valid and not (eg) a public proxy. There seems to be no rDNS of (eg) seznambot.

The other point, of course, is that I haven't actually had any accesses from them for ages, so nothing to check rDNS against.

Pfui: thanks for the IP but I know that one. :) It's the text bot IPs I want.