[Dailydave] Google Robot and Black ICE

[Chris Kuethe]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Adriel Desautels <adriel at netragard.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>         I was just looking over some IDS events and noticed that Google keeps
>  looking for blackice.ini on one of our web servers. Does anyone have any
>  idea as to why Google would be doing this? This happens on average 3-5
>  times a day. Nothing critical, just curious. Every time Google tries the
>  request is denied.

Maybe at one time there was a file called /blackice.ini on your server
and it got indexed? Were you ever on a virtual host with someone who
may have had a /blackice.ini? Maybe some asshats have a link pointing
to this nonexistent file and googlebot says "hm, let's see what this
file that all these people are linking to is all about" ? I know I
still get crawled for urls that aren't on my boxen any more... but not
3-5 times a day.

Whois and traceroute suggest that if someone's pretending to be
googlebot to try mine your site, they're at least putting some effort
into it...

CK

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GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?