HELP whats 208.66.195.9 up too?

[Caios]

Whats 208.66.195.9 up too? Look at the picture below been doing that for about an hour.





What does it mean? Should I ban the IP address?

[Caios]

Actually its changeing IP within 208.66.195.xx

It/they have gone:

208.66.195.9
208.66.195.2
208.66.195.5

[soj]

maybe an unknown search bot/spider, or someone scraping your site, that wouldnt be nice

[hextraordinary]

It's really hard to say what's the final goal of this bot. The only thing for certain is that it's indexing or fetching your pages.

[Caios]

It seams to have stopped now after using 208.66.195.6 & 208.66.195.3

uuum, I wish googlebot would come along and index properly but no I get idiot mistery 208.66.195.xx bot! lol

Whats scraping?

[Old Welsh Guy]

Here are the details oif that spider, or at least the Ip.
http://mccolo.com/english/

OrgName: McColo Corporation
OrgID: MCCOL
Address: 125 E. Delaware Ave.
City: Newark
StateProv: DE
PostalCode: 19711
Country: US
NetRange: 208.66.192.0 - 208.66.195.255
CIDR: 208.66.192.0/22
NetName: MCCOLO
NetHandle: NET-208-66-192-0-1
Parent: NET-208-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS01.MCCOLO.COM
NameServer: NS02.MCCOLO.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2006-04-27
Updated: 2006-04-27
RNOCHandle: MCCOL1-ARIN
RNOCName: McColo NOC
RNOCPhone: 1-347-624-6567
RNOCEmail: noc@mccolo.com
OrgTechHandle: MCCOL1-ARIN
OrgTechName: McColo NOC
OrgTechPhone: 1-347-624-6567
OrgTechEmail: noc@mccolo.com
OrgName: Digital Infinity Ltd
OrgID: DIL-32
Address: Ostrovityanova str 14 200
City: Moscow
StateProv:
PostalCode:
Country: RU
NetRange: 208.66.195.0 - 208.66.195.15
CIDR: 208.66.195.0/28
NetName: DIGITALINFINITY
NetHandle: NET-208-66-195-0-1
Parent: NET-208-66-192-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate: 2006-05-31
Updated: 2006-05-31
RAbuseHandle: SUPPO189-ARIN
RAbuseName: Support
RAbusePhone: 7 (495) 980-6635
RAbuseEmail: noc@digitalinfinity.org
OrgTechHandle: SUPPO189-ARIN
OrgTechName: Support
OrgTechPhone: 7 (495) 980-6635
OrgTechEmail: noc@digitalinfinity.org


Suggest you contact them and ask them what is happening.

[Caios]

Thanks Welsh,
Ive sent them an email to ask them what they where doing. They have stopped now but Id rather they didnt come back and hog my bandwidth without a reason.

[Old Welsh Guy]

Block the IP range in your htaccess file. they will then not be allowed access to the site

[hextraordinary]

Originally Posted by Old Welsh Guy

Block the IP range in your htaccess file. they will then not be allowed access to the site

I'd rather check before I block in such instances. It might be an outsourced SE indexing service or somthing. I'd wait for a reply first.

[Caios]

no reply from them yet. I may phone them if they dont reply.

[iatbm]

ehh don't bother it is useles really .... if you don't like them on your site ban and thats it ...

[Old Welsh Guy]

I am with 'block em' as well

My guess is that they are a hosting company who have rented space to some dude who is scraping your content.

[sosuke]

this may be an older thread, but i found it by searching for 208.66.195 which just came thru a wasted my months bandwidth, i banned them thru htaccess and asked my host to ban them all around

did anyone get any word as to who they were?

[EGS]

I searched around for a bit and found that it could be a possible DDoS attempt; I would definately ban it.

IP DDoS Attempt Log - Find the Domain

Results from Google

[aaronjj]

This bot is downloading all the content on my site including stylesheets and pdfs. I've never banned any IPs before. Is it best to set htaccess to deny 208.66.195. ?

[Smyrl]

I would do it immediately. You can always change it at later date.

[Old Welsh Guy]

Add this to your htaccess file

order allow,deny
deny from 208.66.195.

This will block all acesses from the above domain and any subdomins at that address as well.

[Caios]

I did hear from the company and they said they would look into it. But havnt heard back from them since.

Do you think it could be an back link checker on a site they host maybe?

Its left me alone now but if I see it again I will ban it.

[badger]

man, these guys (whoever they are) are killing me...

[robert2a]

I have a FrontPage website on a window server and I too am visited by the 208 etcetera bot. Any direction you might give me on how I can block this thing from entering my site?