[91291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: www.gigablast.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Wed Jul 12 18:25:12 2006
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:24:08 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <44B56AE4.3000601@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
It appears that some of the queries are valid for an older site that
existed in the past. That site was a wiki and some of the Giga hits are
for internationalized versions of the default help/support pages. This
is fine and acceptable behavior by them (IMHO). The fact that they are
querying something that no longer exist is something I can deal with.
The strangeness is that some of their crawling is looking for URLs with
multiple exclamation points, those URLs never existed. This may be
indicative of a character translation on my system or theirs. BUT, the
net net is that I no longer feel a need to be concerned about them.
Thanks all,
-Jim P.
Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-)
>
> What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing
> "questionable" queries (mostly http) across every IP that I have access
> to check.
>
> I get a could of thousand hits (mostly questionable non-existing URL
> requests) from that ip (66.154.103.75). Anyone else seeing/questioning
> this?
>
> Completewhois shows some listings in some RBLs, but not the more popular
> ones.
>
> -Jim P.
>
