FyberSpider

FyberSpider/1.3 (http://www.fybersearch.com/fyberspider.php)

[Dijkgraaf]

Old thread [webmasterworld.com...]

Updated UA: FyberSpider/1.3 (http://www.fybersearch.com/fyberspider.php)
IP: 76.28.228.nnn
rDNS: c-76-28-228-nnn.hsd1.wa.comcast.net
Robots.txt: Yes

Behaviour: Only took a single page (not root).

[Pfui]

FWIW, fybersearch.com -- hailing from Burien, WA, just south of Seattle -- has been bot-running through the following WA-based Comcast address for so long that I think it's its mother ship...

Last year, October:
c-76-28-228-40.hsd1.wa.comcast.net
FyberSpider/1.3 (http://www.fybersearch.com/fyberspider.php)
robots.txt? Yes

Last January:
c-76-28-228-40.hsd1.wa.comcast.net
FyberSpider/1.3 (http://www.fybersearch.com/fyberspider.php)
robots.txt? Yes

Last week:
The same IP/Host using the same UA has tripped into 389 Project Honey Pots in >18 months through last week.
[projecthoneypot.org...]

FWIW redux, it's been years since its UA changed. Also, the .net still shares registration with the .com, ditto fybersearch.com owner Nathan Enns's searchindustryblog.com, etc. ...

Pre 2008/9:
server.fybersearch.net
FyberSpider/1.3 (http://www.fybersearch.com/fyberspider.php)
robots.txt? Yes

Last but definitely not least, kudos to Enns for coding a bot that requests robots.txt and heeds same on my sites. (Am not so sure about others' sites given the bot trap stats.)