BingLocalSearch

[topr8]

User-Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.152 Safari/537.36 (BingLocalSearch)

157.56.2.203

it supported a reverse dns lookup, and appears to be in the bing family of bots,
i hadn't seen it before.

requested robots.txt

[keyplyr]

Been around for years. Maybe your site just made the list?

[topr8]

maybe! ...
or perhaps i've just recently taken more notice! ... although i didn't see a reference to it on WebmasterWorld

[lucy24]

What does "local" mean? Businesses specific to some immediate geographic location, that kind of thing? (Would explain why I've never set eyes on them.)

[keyplyr]

Local Search - Bing, Yahoo & Google all have it... and for most cities around the world now. Uses you device's location feature via GPS and returns results near you.

When local search first started 5 or 6 years ago there were several discussions here at WW.

Geo tags added to the HEAD section of your web page help get indexed for local search, but just displaying your street address will work OK. I use both. Source the mark-up of my profile pages to see what the geo tags look like.

[keyplyr]

FYI - Bingbot is now coming from: 40.64.0.0 - 40.127.255.255

This is not tagged as "crawl" at the WHOIS and I didn't have it allowed in my filters. I unsuspectingly thought it a poser for several days until I looked up the range (hence the 403):

40.77.167.67 - - [22/Oct/2015:19:26:52 -0700] "GET /example.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 982 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"

So far just asking for image files.

(also posted as new thread)

[dstiles]

A reverse DNS of the complete 40.77/16 shows msnbot takes up all of and only 40.77.167.0/24

[keyplyr]

rDNS is incorrect. I have it in logs from all over the /16. That is the point. M$ has not changed the registration to signify crawl.

[dstiles]

They get permitted according to rdns here. If it's not valid, they get rejected. :(