[svlug] tracking a errant web client

[Rick Kwan]

Walt Reed wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:04:59AM -0700, Rick Kwan said:
> 
>>Summary:  I'm trying to track down someone's errant web client; it
>>may be someone I know whose machine is behaving strangely.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>Any suggestions for figuring out what company or ISP this address
>>belongs to?  If I can get that far, I might be able to narrow it
>>down to the person's machine by discretely asking around.
> 
> 
> dig -x whatever.ip.address can get reverse DNS if available. Then whois
> from there.

That worked perfectly.  It was indeed a crawler from our
local search engine company over in Mountain View.  I'm just
amazed it was looking for so many non-existant (but potentially
related) pages.

--Rick Kwan