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ZanranCrawler/0.2 (helpdesk@zanran.com)

8:12 pm on Jun 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

Seems to be constantly on my site requesting pages every 5-10 seconds.

Hit robots.txt but is not obeying it.

IP is 174.129.nnn.nnn which is Amazon

Can't find much info about this software publishing company. Home page just has login page for beta testing.

11:47 pm on Jun 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

Was the host amazonaws.com? As in ec2-[yada-yada]-152.compute-1.amazonaws.com?

If yes, "ZanranCrawler" is a new entry amongst the scores of bots hiding behind the AWS cloud. See the ongoing:

8:22 am on Jun 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes

ec2-174-129-nnn-nnn.compute-1.amazonaws.com

After reading that thread it is now binned banned and blocked.

[edited by: Frank_Rizzo at 8:23 am (utc) on June 22, 2009]