To which company this bot Belongs to : EchO!

Hello,
I have found this weird entry in my awstats that some ECHO! bot/spider has visited my site , so can someone tell me which company it belongs to ?

EchO!	1	1.41 KB	25 Apr 2006 - 05:15

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Is someone trying to break into the server or something?

Anyone got clue?

 

Same here iam also confused about this bot
Never ever seen before!

 

Strange i have never seen voyager either , whats that bot all about?

Ok no one has clue to what that Echo thing is.

Well something new came on my site : LinkWalker << what the hell is that now ?

 

EchO!/2.0 was the spider of echo.fr that now belongs to France Télécom. As far as I know, this robot is not used by France Télécom anymore since a long time. I guess that someone else has created a new robot with the same name and AWStats believes it is the old EchO!/2.0.

Informations about LinkWalker

Jean-Luc

 

But why did linkwalker come to my site, i didnt perform any link tests.

 

I believe that their robot spiders many sites and, if they find broken links, they let you know and they suggest that they can make you a nice offer to avoid these broken links problems...

Jean-Luc

 

Ok this is getting annyoying now i have more linkwalker activity than yahoo bots now, its about to cross msn bot activity also, so is this bad and should i contact that bot company to stop crawling like hell.

 

Who the hell does this bot belong to? It eats more than double the amount of bandwidth other engines eat, wtf is it doing to my forum? Should I just ban the IP or what?

75% of my traffic comes from Google anyway, the other 24% come form MSN and Yahoo!, so whats the point right?

 

This has already been discussed here :

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=78941

 

Guys, look at this:



So, it's safe to just ban this bot form my site?

 

For u u should be more concerned about the unknown bot that used up 10gb of ur bw.

 

I would not trust AWStats information regarding EchO!. As far as I can see, AWStats just checks for the existence of an "echo" string within the user agent.

AWStats also reports EchO! in one of my sites, but I just discovered this user agent in my server logs:

BonEcho is a developer preview release of the next generation Firefox, according to the Bon Echo Alpha 1 page on mozilla.org.

Not a bot, just a visitor with an unusual browser ?

Jean-Luc

 

Lets shoot the bot down. Its said " Do not talk to strangers "

 

The Voyager bot is on my site at the moment - is it safe?

 

Did anyone ever figure out what the "Voyager" bot is all about or where it is coming from? I can't seem to find any answers.

 

Whois

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PSINet, Inc. PSINETA (NET-38-0-0-0-1) 38.0.0.0 - 38.255.255.255
PSINet, Inc. COGENT-NB-0002 (NET-38-112-0-0-1) 38.112.0.0 - 38.119.255.255


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Voyager [Bot] IP: 38.113.234.181 » Whois
Voyager/1.0

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is it safe?