strange MS visits

[Peter L. Peres]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Austin wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 12:07 -0500, psema4 wrote:
>> When I got in last night, I ran a traceroute on an IP that's been
>> trying to get into the member centers on my bbs.  Since those pages
>> are private, it begged the question, whois?
>>
>> OrgName:    Microsoft Corp
>
> Yeah, it's very yuck.
>
> Whereas google reads a few pages of my site each day, MS crawls the
> entire site a few times per day, hitting certain pages up to 100 times
> for no obvious reason.
>
> If I block one of their IP's, in true Borg fashion, a new IP starts
> appearing in the logs.  ;-)

How about running thttpd ? And direct persistent interest to a tarpit ?

Peter
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