Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:24:08PM -0400, Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > The strangeness is that some of their crawling is looking for URLs > with multiple exclamation points, those URLs never existed. This may > be indicative of a character transla

RE: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-13 Thread Bill Woodcock
> What gigablast seems to be doing, on the other hand, is trying to open > every window in a house in the hopes that it will find one that's open. Just looking at the text strings in the URLs, my off-the-top-of-my-head guess was that those were URLs it saw in email spam. They looked v

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
longer feel a need to be concerned about them. Thanks all, -Jim P. Jim Popovitch wrote: Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing "questionable" queries (mostly http) across every IP that I have access to check.

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:50:54PM -0700, Malcolm Staudinger wrote: > Google is your friend? > They're a search engine. robots.txt and forget it. > > Malcolm That's assuming whoever designed their software actually adheres to robots.txt. RFCs recommend people adhere to it, but there are some wh

RE: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread David Schwartz
> :-) Let me add something before everyone on NANOG reminds me that > gigablast is a search engine. I know what they do, but what I don't > understand is why are they searching my systems for URLs that haven't > ever existed there before. It's as though they are doing random word > searches

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
> They're a search engine. robots.txt and forget it. > > Malcolm > > Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) >> >> What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing >> "questionable" queries (mos

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Malcolm Staudinger
Google is your friend? They're a search engine. robots.txt and forget it. Malcolm Jim Popovitch wrote: Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing "questionable" queries (mostly http) across every IP that I

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
!!! /Pr!!f!!rencesUtilisateur /WikiHomePage /HilfeZuParsern /AiutoModello /GewenstePaginas /HilfeZu!!berschriften -Jim P. Jim Popovitch wrote: Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing "questionable" quer

www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing "questionable" queries (mostly http) across every IP that I have access to check. I get a could of thousand hits (mostly questionable non-existing URL requests) fr