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Re: IIS Logfile
From: craig () server codestorm org
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:33:17 -0500
Well a quick google search shows that this is there site survey bot. Basicly what that means is this, they are seeing how long you have been up and according to there web page they are getting the titles of all the pages you let them access. The robots.txt means that they are reading that and seeing what is not avaliable to them. Check out http://www.whois.sc/info/webmasters/surveybot.html That is there page on the informaion On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:48:45PM -0400, mfernandez () fdta-valles org wrote:
Every day, I have this entry on one IIS log file: 2004-10-25 04:16:46 64.246.165.10 - W3SVC1 FILESERVER xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 GET /robots.txt - 401 5 0 www.mydomain.com SurveyBot/2.3+(Whois+Source) http://www.whois.sc/ 2004-10-25 04:16:46 64.246.165.10 - W3SVC1 FILESERVER xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 GET / - 401 5 0 www.mydomain.com SurveyBot/2.3+(Whois+Source) http://www.whois.sc/mydomain.com I understand that some "whois" site is checking my server, but Is this dangerous? Should I block this IP? Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Current thread:
- IIS Logfile mfernandez (Oct 25)
- Re: IIS Logfile craig (Oct 26)
- Re: IIS Logfile Miles Stevenson (Oct 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IIS Logfile H Carvey (Oct 26)
- Re: IIS Logfile mfernandez (Oct 27)
- Re: IIS Logfile Anthony Boynes (Oct 27)
- Re: IIS Logfile messanger (Oct 28)
- RE: IIS Logfile Andrew Shore (Oct 27)
- RE: IIS Logfile Eric McCarty (Oct 27)