Hi all, all of a sudden I'm getting tons of hits from a different msn bot. My statistics program shows me the name of the bot and the Tld and I used to get hits from com but now they stay pretty much away and it switched to gbl when I type msn.gbl it does not exist... anyone know what this is and why? Danny
At this point of time it seems to be much more behind this topic as many people know, my friends and myself included. There is one thing that is us even more concerning: If you send a message, using the MSN-protocol, it will instantly be redirected by IPs, what have their origin somewhere in the 64.xxxxxx range and are resolved as .phx.gbl domains. IANA.org or any other lists show no record of a valid domain with that name. It is no matter of what kind of chatmessenger you use, a hybrid or the original, this happens everytime you send or recieve a message. .phx.gbl is also part of email-headers and forum-replies, google and other search engines show up when you do research work on that. Some people bring this together with "spiders", "msn-bot" and spam.. Well, we don't know any more about this, except the fact that people began to mention the topic by the end of 2005. A high concentration of results is after February 2006 and now. Obviously the .ARPA network is involved in this, too. Some people tried to resolve the DNS .phx.gbl & .gbl detailed and got .arpa net servers as results in their lists. Whatever this is, I find it should be revealed what it is for, what exacly it does, who this huge IP-range owns ect. Search google, alltheweb, ... ask around frequently - maybe there's more information on this soon. I hope so.