Sheesh. Just after I finished blocking Rankcrawler from accessing my site, I found yet another connection attempt from them – this time from a totally new IP address:
94.23.51.159 – – [31/May/2009:07:14:02 -0400] “GET /2009/05/30/conn-clusion/ HTTP/1.1” 200 5574 “http://real-url.org” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 5.01; Windows -NT 5.0 – real-url.org)”
94.23.51.159 – – [31/May/2009:07:15:25 -0400] “GET /2009/05/30/conn-clusion/ HTTP/1.0” 200 5574 “-” “-”
94.23.51.159 – – [31/May/2009:07:15:25 -0400] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 473 “-” “XML-RPC for PHP 2.2.2”
This IP resolves to rps6637.ovh.net. OVH.Net is the same ISP that Rankcrawler uses. They just can’t take no for an answer.
[Update: 1 June 2009] Rankcrawler says this isn’t them. Duly noted.
Hello! This web site is not a “bad” bot and it’s not a crawler too 🙂 But, we are hosted on the same server (This is OVH).
This log was the ping request (see the pingback “how to” for more details). This means your post was twitted by someone and we have resolved the shorturl in the twitt. That’s all 🙂
See you !