I've now implemented several anti spam mods so hopefully we're pretty watertight now. It's never going to be perfect but hopefully much better.
Anyway, this is what a trace revealed. What does it all mean?
This was the ip address >> Base 10 conversion: 66.249.66.2
TraceRoute to 66.249.66.2 [crawl-66-249-66-2.googlebot.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 0 0 66.98.244.1 gphou-66-98-244-1.ev1servers.net
2 0 0 0 66.98.241.16 gphou-66-98-241-16.ev1servers.net
3 0 0 0 66.98.240.5 gphou-66-98-240-5.ev1servers.net
4 1 2 12 129.250.10.189 ge-1-14.r04.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
5 1 1 1 129.250.4.106 xe-4-2.r03.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
6 1 1 1 129.250.2.228 xe-0-1-0.r20.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
7 7 7 7 129.250.4.70 p64-1-3-0.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
8 7 6 7 129.250.2.185 p16-3-0-0.r01.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
9 6 6 6 64.125.12.53 so-6-0-1.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net
10 Timed out 6 7 64.125.29.190 so-1-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net
11 34 34 34 64.125.29.14 so-2-1-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net
12 35 35 35 64.125.27.209 so-5-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net
13 35 35 49 64.125.29.134 so-3-0-0.mpr1.iad2.us.above.net
14 30 31 30 64.125.28.26 so-0-0-0.mpr2.iad2.us.above.net
15 37 38 38 209.249.73.70 reserved.above.net
16 36 35 36 66.249.66.2 crawl-66-249-66-2.googlebot.com
Trace complete
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Also, I had a few posts on another forum of mine which included links to these>>>
peakclick . com
xrumer botmaster . net
networktools . com
Any views / ideas / comments welcome
M.
