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Re: Site Scaning & IP graps



  Good spiders will ask for /robots.txt and find out what to do with 
themselves if they find it.

  Generally grepping for /robots.txt will give you a list of spiders that 
have found you.

  -brian

On Thu, 21 Mar 1996 KGANNON@dit.ie wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:44:27 +0000 (GMT)
> From: KGANNON@dit.ie
> To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Site Scaning & IP graps
> 
> Can anyone tell me what the best way of detecting if a spider has had a look
> at your server i.e is there a list of common spiders.
> 
> The story is there is a server here on site and while looking at the logs for
> my own page I saw a number of sites that I have never heard off. The thing
> is that there is no DNS entry for the server and it has not been advertised
> only 10 or so people on site even know it exists .
> 
> I am just a little curious as to how people know about the server .
> 

--
Brian W. Spolarich - ANS CO+RE Systems - briansp@ans.net - (313)677-7311
              Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.


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