Because Acceptance is beautiful, and Heaven is overrated. The poetry and musings of Erin Monahan
Friday, October 28, 2005
Curiosity is killing this cat!
I did a whois query on my tetris visitor because it's driving me crazy. Unfortunately, I don't know if it told me anything! Anyone care to tell me what all this [link] means?
Well, I was hoping that someone who knew more than I could tell me if it's a person actually surfing (hitting specific posts on my blog at approx. 1 hour intervals for 3 days, without having a referring link) or of it's a bot/spyder/crawler (which has java enabled and the OS and Res. visible, and using a constant IP addy which is highly unusual for a bot)
See, I can usually identify a bot from the info in my stats, but this time, it's just such a weird thing, strange stat info, unusual behavior, I'm just not sure.
The hubby says it's a bot, and I usually trust him (he can spot a google bot at a glance like it's nothing by the IP addy sequence of numbers) but this one has my curiosity piqued.
I'm leaning toward believing it's a bot for some new site that collects RSS feeds, or email addresses for spam purposes, by using a site that collects rss feeds. I was just hoping someone could confirm or deny.
Your visitor is using a computer on the Washington University network.
ReplyDeletelol Martin, that much I DO know!
ReplyDeletewell, what more could you know?
ReplyDeleteWell, I was hoping that someone who knew more than I could tell me if it's a person actually surfing (hitting specific posts on my blog at approx. 1 hour intervals for 3 days, without having a referring link) or of it's a bot/spyder/crawler (which has java enabled and the OS and Res. visible, and using a constant IP addy which is highly unusual for a bot)
ReplyDeleteSee, I can usually identify a bot from the info in my stats, but this time, it's just such a weird thing, strange stat info, unusual behavior, I'm just not sure.
The hubby says it's a bot, and I usually trust him (he can spot a google bot at a glance like it's nothing by the IP addy sequence of numbers) but this one has my curiosity piqued.
I'm leaning toward believing it's a bot for some new site that collects RSS feeds, or email addresses for spam purposes, by using a site that collects rss feeds. I was just hoping someone could confirm or deny.
With that sort of behaviour, you end up hoping it IS a bot- otherwise it's some sort of stalker! M
ReplyDeletelol, yeah, I'm sort of hoping it's a bot.
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