Kroger.com 'webcrawlers'

[Pfui]

webcrawler01.kroger.com
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MS-RTC LM 8)

robots.txt? NO

Requested a wrongly titled page => 404. Never seen again. Not 100% sure it was a bot per se; possibly an outbound server for employees? (Search results show numerous, non-spam posts by multiple posters via the same Host.) If the latter, an unfortunate sub-domain naming scheme.

FWIW:

webcrawler01.kroger.com = 158.48.6.nn
webcrawler02.kroger.com = 158.48.6.nn
webcrawler03.kroger.com = 158.48.133.nn
webcrawler04.kroger.com = 158.48.133.nn

[edited by: incrediBILL at 1:53 am (utc) on Feb 19, 2010]
[edit reason] Obscured IPs [/edit]

[System]

The following 2 messages were cut out to new thread by incredibill. New thread at: search_engine_spiders/4085421.htm [webmasterworld.com]
12:43 am on Feb 23, 2010 (PST -8)

[frontpage]

My IDS just banned this thing (unknown if bot or human) automatically due to the high number of connections.

webcrawler04.kroger.com using these two user agents within seconds of each other.

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)"

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; MS-RTC LM 8)"