Hits from bigip1-snat.sv.av.com ( 209.73.164.50)

Altavista new bot ?

[bfleisch]

Hi,

Today bigip1-snat.sv.av.com grabs of one's of my website.I'm pretty sure this IS a bot, because it only fetched html pages ( no jpg & gif ).

Browser id is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MISE 5.0; Windows 9; DigExt)".

The amazing thing is that nearly all my pages are PHP ( dynamic ) and this bot fetchs urls with "?".

Is AV testing a new algo and will it index dynamic content ( like google & fast ).

I just hope so...

[Brett_Tabke]

It has been grabbing some of our cgi stuff too.

[gekoviola]

This is not a bot..
bigip1-snat.sv.av.com is Babelfish. [go to 'world.altavista.com' and try..]
in other words, someone are checking if your pages are cloaked..
->and voila' why you see Mozilla etc. as User Agent..
Precious tip eh..

[volatilegx]

I believe this IP is Scooter AND Babelfish. When Scooter is using the IP, you'll see a Scooter User Agent.