Okay here's a puzzler. These just in, via distributed hits in a two-minute period:
74.125.75.4
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
robots.txt? NO
64.233.172.33
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
robots.txt? NO
The referrers for both were identical, and concerned a recent in-the-news connection to the site, and began with --
[
images.google.com...]
-- so at first I thought okay, someone clicked on a G image result. But hold on --
1.) The rest of the ref included an entire URL to a CGI-generated page the entire directory of which is G-blocked.
2.) The .jpg file in the ref doesn't exist at the path in the ref, or even on-site period.
3.) All images G-blocked.
4.) The 'user' was redirected to and ate bot-bait -- also G-blocked -- that also included an image.
Bottom Line: G's not supposed to do any of the things someone/something just did from G's IPs.
With its translator, the IPs and UAs are both G's. (And many of us block that way in because bad guys use it.) With this, beats me. Unless it was a G employee searching, I guess.
Thoughts?
