leak.info/bot

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; fluid/0.0; +http://www.leak.info/bot.html)

[SumGuy]

Saw this recently from 216.201.9.135:

GET /robots.txt Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; fluid/0.0; +http://www.leak.info/bot.html)

IP maps to what looks like a small-scale hoster / provider of some sort:

216-201-9-135.microtronixesolutions.com
INDEPENDENTSFIBERNETWORK - Com Net, Inc.
Ohio, Ottoville

Did not grab anything beyond robots file (would have been allowed to according to robot rules).

[lucy24]

Hm, that's interesting. I’ve been seeing this UA every few days since
:: detour to archived logs ::
mid-2021, but never from anywhere but 194.93.0.abc (same every time).

Somewhere along the line I authorized them, but they've never asked for anything but robots.txt. Is it one of those robots that's simply checking whether a site exists, for which purpose robots.txt will do as well as anything?

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Don't block that, one of the things they do is look for things that go bump in the night. [youtube.com...]

[Pfui]

Apparently Microtronix Esolutions is the current Mothership (216.201.9.135 - leak.info). I've also seen the UA hailing from Servtech in Moscow (194.93.0.40 - salnikov1.serv-dns.ru). Both only sought robots.txt but they're not welcome one way or another,