strange MS visits

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

It's "Google-killer" search engine from Micro$oft. This IP address in my 
permanent iptables ban-list.
They are very aggressively index my pages almost every day, slowing down 
my connection.
Most of their hits comes to my Philip Sayce photoalbum.


PS: It's a old Linux server, http://gallery.deeptown.org running old 
redhat 8. =)

All the Best!
Sergey.

Austin wrote:

>Hmm, I'm having the weirdest thing going on with my website... maybe
>someone can offer insight.
>
>I've had this address crawling all over my site lately, which is okay.
>Recently it started visiting more often, and reloading the same pages
>repeatedly.  By today, it was pounding two of my pages "recent posts"
>and "leave feedback" form, several times per minute.  It's not really
>consuming that much bandwidth, but it's filling up my logs with useless
>quasi-spam.
>
>So guess who's IP it is?
>
>[austin at n1 rpm]$ whois 207.46.98.47
>OrgName:    Microsoft Corp
>OrgID:      MSFT
>Address:    One Microsoft Way
>City:       Redmond
>StateProv:  WA
>
>So either the microsoft search bot is messed up treating my site like a
>punching bag, or someone at MS is being a dick, or a machine at head
>office has been compromised and is being used to do malicious stuff.
>
>I dunno, I guess it's a bit off topic, but I'd love to hear your ideas.
>
>Austin
>
>P.S.  It's a linux server, http://groundstate.ca running Drupal.
>
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