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Saturday, May 10, 2003 |
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The latest discovery from The World According to GREP: 12.148.209.198 - - [21/Feb/2003:05:45:13 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 300 12.148.209.198 - - [21/Feb/2003:06:08:01 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7651 12.148.209.198 - - [21/Feb/2003:06:43:01 +0000] "GET /gate/archive.html HTTP/1.1" 401 493 12.148.209.198 - - [21/Feb/2003:07:21:54 +0000] "GET /gate/video.html HTTP/1.1" 401 493 12.148.209.198 - - [25/Feb/2003:11:29:35 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 300 12.148.209.198 - - [25/Feb/2003:12:00:44 +0000] "GET /gate/album/index.html HTTP/1.1" 401 493 12.148.209.198 - - [25/Feb/2003:12:31:26 +0000] "GET /gate/archive.html HTTP/1.1" 401 493 12.148.209.198 - - [25/Feb/2003:13:04:24 +0000] "GET /gate/video.html HTTP/1.1" 401 493 12.148.209.198 - - [09/May/2003:20:18:32 +0100] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 300 12.148.209.198 - - [09/May/2003:20:18:32 +0100] "GET /gate/album/index.html HTTP/1.1" 401 493
12.148.209.198 doesn't resolve on a reverse dns lookup. but further investigation turns up this, which leads to this interesting company. Which numbers among its clients Warner Bros and Microsoft.
Interesting to see the words they are looking for: album, archive, video. at least they first look for robots.txt
Chris has now created a blog about these creepy crawlers. |
