This is all that comes through on the logs (a few examples - URLS have been removed) As you can see, they are 403'd right now until it is determined what their purpose is.
2011-08-08 00:00:25 GET /-------------------74.125.44.89 dots - - www.------------------- 403 6 0 5521 109 125 2011-08-08 15:14:54 GET /---------------------- 74.125.66.84 dots - - www.---------------- 403 6 0 5521 109 265 And here is googlebot for comparison 2011-08-08 00:00:00 GET /------------------------- 66.249.72.105 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Googlebot/2.1;++http://www.google.com/bot.html) - - www.----------------------- 200 0 0 15116 256 890 And the google web preview for comparison. As you see here, we have had to 403 the google web preview due to the fact that the DOTS crawler / bot / spider or ??? sometimes comes from this same IP block as well. 2011-08-08 15:22:05 GET /------------------------------ 209.85.226.88 Mozilla/5.0+(X11;+Linux+x86_64)+AppleWebKit/534.24+(KHTML,+like+Gecko;+Google+Web+Preview)+Chrome/11.0.696+Safari/534.24 - - www.------------------- 403 6 0 5521 338 375 And other Google Feedfetcher for comparison 2011-08-08 09:42:32 GET /rss.php------ 209.85.238.149 Feedfetcher-Google;+(+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html;+1+subscribers;+feed-id=2643416141115947993) - - www.------------------ 200 0 0 13069 334 1531 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/QPfrvCZrYRQJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.