Is this an AOL spider visiting my site?

[tomd]

Over a 15 minute period yesterday, I received numerous visits from a "proxy.aol.com" domain. Is this the aol.com search engine indexing my site?

Following are exact machine names and visit times:

12 Feb, Sun, 13:43:31 cache-dtc-ae01.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:43:37 cache-los-ac08.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:43:43 cache-los-ab09.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:44:41 cache-dtc-aa02.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:48:17 cache-los-aa02.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:48:55 cache-los-ac01.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:52:26 cache-los-ab06.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:53:11 cache-los-ab01.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:53:40 cache-los-ac02.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:57:07 cache-los-ad08.proxy.aol.com
12 Feb, Sun, 13:58:26 cache-los-ab05.proxy.aol.com

[deadmoon]

Don't all "normal" AOL users, when using the AOl browser use the aol proxy? Maybe its just a normal user? I'm not sure.

[Hemanth]

Most probably it's a normal AOL user. As AOL transfers it's users through a series of proxies to the requested page. :)

[tomd]

Most probably it's a normal AOL user. As AOL transfers it's users through a series of proxies to the requested page. :)

Yes, you are right. I checked the AOL info site for webmasters and they described the same process. Thanks for your help.

[Hemanth]

I've added my site to the AOL index & i'm getting the same stats now .. :)

[wny]

I have seen AOL proxies coming through before and my site still isn't indexed on AOL, so it's apparently common regardless.

[peterstannard]

I have a number of links on AOLs search engine. Getting decent traffic. Not as much as the "big 3" though.