[ic] RobotIPs

Grant emailgrant123b at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 20 19:53:07 EST 2004


--- Kevin Walsh <kevin at cursor.biz> wrote:
> Jon [prtyof5 at attglobal.net] wrote:
> > > > RobotIP <<EOR
> > > >     202.9.155.123,      204.152.191.41,       
>  208.146.26.19,
> > > >     208.146.26.233,     209.185.141.209,      
>  209.185.141.211,
> > > >     209.202.148.36,     209.202.148.41,       
>  216.200.130.207,
> > > >     216.35.103.6?,      216.35.103.70,
> > > > EOR
> > > > 
> > > > Seems like there should be some 64.68*
> > > > in there shouldn't there ??
> > > >
> > > Please be so kind to tell us which robots
> crawling from this IP block
> > > to help the ICDEVGROUP to improve the default
> settings.
> > > 
> > Googlebot.   Or am I wrong ?  Assuming so would it
> be correct
> > and appropriate to add    64.68?  ??
> > 
> 64.68.* would cover 65,536 IP addresses.  It's
> probably safe to say
> that they're not all used by spiders.  They're
> definitely not all
> owned by Google. :-)
> 
> For instance, 64.68.0.0/19 is allocated to by "Elan
> Communications".
> 64.68.32.0/19 is allocated to "Advanced Access" and
> 64.68.64.0/19
> is allocated to "Cable & Wireless".  Within the
> Cable & Wireless
> block, 64.68.78.0/23 is reallocated (sub-let) to
> eBay.  I believe
> Google has a large block in there somewhere
> (something like 2048 IPs)
> but I can't find it at the moment, and they're
> probably not all used
> by spiders anyway.
> 
> A more focused list of addresses may make it into
> the default set,
> as long as a proper justification is presented. 
> You're free to add
> any addresses you like into your own local
> configuration, of course.

Why would you want to use IPs instead of UAs?

- Grant

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