Last night I downloaded copies of all my hitcounter files and then deleted the originals from my site. This afternoon I looked in the folder and they were all there again. Now I know this isn't due to high amounts of traffic because I only get an average 1000 hits a month. Upon looking at the time the files were created (all within seconds/minutes of each other) and the last IP address logged, it appears someone is harvesting the links from my directory or it's just a robot spidering my site. The IP that appears in the logs is 209.202.148.41. Does anyone know if this IP address is assosiated with any search engine?

This buggs me because I caught a competing site harvesting my links before...

--Drew

Drew....If you conduct a tracert, you can find out the source....



I tried an nslookup on the IP Address you provided and I got the following results:



One resource that you might want to use to ask about harvesting links from your site is:

http://www.searchengineforums.com/

If you search for the IP address, you may find some Threads that have posted it before. Users of this forum post potential attacks and IP Addresses.

Also, check your server logs and see if you can find the paths where this IP address has taken.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

I've had spiders crawl my site before with the IP address 209.202.148.32 range before. Close, but it's probably not the same spider/person.
Later,
Paul

http://www.fullmoonshining.com for Pearl Jam Fans

I think it's the same set of spiders. A tracert on that IP brings up exodus.net like the IP I posted. It appears exodus.net is the hosting provider for those IP's so I'm going ask them and see if they could tell me anything.

Searches in several spider IP databases haven't turned up anything yet.

Thanks a lot

--Drew