Re: Unfriendly robot at 205.252.60.50

Nick Arnett (narnett@Verity.COM)
Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:41:05 -0700


At 7:53 AM 10/19/95, Reinier Post wrote:
>>The correct address of the owner of the robot is 205.252.60.50, which won't
>>resolve. Tight security, apparently. Ironically.
>
>Well, on our site (www.win.tue.nl), it's causing no problems at all

In my e-mail to NlightN, I said that I assume it was unintentional. I
can't imagine that anyone would purposely request documents at the rate
they were hitting us. Of course, there's no way to know if that was the
robot or a human-controlled browser hitting your site from the same host...

Thanks!

Nick