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Thanks. I didn't know about that. So monitoring the user-agent strings, some interesting things pop out:

  1. Go-http-client/1.1
  2. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)
  3. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.2; +https://opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot; help@moz.com)
  4. Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
  5. Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36
  6. Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)
  7. Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; TikTokSpider; ttspider-feedback@tiktok.com)
  8. Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.6998.165 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)
  9. Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.6998.165 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Some clearly say "bot" (or, in a couple cases, "spider"), which is nice. What I'm a little concerned about is #8, "GoogleOther". What does that mean? It's also coming from 66.249.*, just like the "Googlebot" ones. We don't want to keep Google from indexing the site, we just don't want it to hit Super Search (too often).

A bunch of different ones occur in the log (which, btw, goes back to Sept. 2021)...

AhrefsBot Amazonbot AntBot Applebot BLEXBot Bytespider CCBot ClaudeBot DataForSeoBot DotBot GPTBot GoogleOther Googlebot PetalBot SPIDER SemrushBot SEOkicks SpiderLing TikTokSpider YandexBot bingbot

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Re^11: Unable to connect
by hippo (Archbishop) on Mar 25, 2025 at 22:06 UTC