I have just banned this entire range. Whois lookups make it look like it is from different countries (though often Australia), and the IP changes every few pageviews, though always within 124.115. It is definitely a bot and I think from China. I know it's a bot because unfortunately no user reads that many pages on this site of mine Unless you REALLY think you might be getting legitimate traffic from China, I say "ban"...
Many of those IP addresses could be bots, however, all of the IP's seems impossible to me. Why? They'ld own 255 * 255 = 65000+ IP's! And on guess 1 IP costs 1 $ monthly, that would mean the bot would cost more than 65000 dollars monthly, for IP addresses only. I don't think such a bot would be profitable for anybody lol ... You're however right that most of them are chinese; I had the same impression after bit of research. Thanks for sharing tho
Ha, true, I didn't do the maths! I reckon I am not missing much if I ban the whole range anyway By the way, the Yahoo Slurp bot behaves in a similar way, really annoying, keeps changing IP addresses, screws up my stats a bit, but I can't really ban that...!
You can also ban on useragent, isn't it? Just like google, the useragent of Yahoo Slurp stays the same. That way, you can ban on useragent.
Oh yeah, it's annoying because I can't categorise my stats properly. But to bloI just mean I can't exactly afford to block Yahoo and not be indexed by them! I have noticed a fourfold increase in Yahoo bot hits the last month, and a huuuuge increase in traffic from Yahoo searches, so I suppose I can't complain!
Not bad indeed (Unless you have secret things on your site, which you want to keep secret ;^) ). But for most sites its a good thing!