Who is this?

Okay, I am quite bothered by someone or something that has been lurking on my forums, Webmaster Forum Philippines . The ip is 66.249.65.15

I searched it on a whois site. the nameservers were NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM,  etc.

Is this the googlebot?

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Propably yes

Hmm.. that's a good thing I guess. I was thinking that someone was stalking me. hehe. Thanks as always.

Off-topic: Is there a way to track its ip down like the one that you are using? I notice that you have "Yahoo crawler", "Googlebot" as users in the forum.

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You can track through the user agent, not the ip.

There is a mod for that in the SMF site. Webdigity's is a custom one.

crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com  Thats the hostname

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As I said check the user agent. In php you can do this, this way :

Code:

<?php
if ( strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Googlebot" ) == true )
{
    //Do something
}

Also check this : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-verify-googlebot.html

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