GoogleBot IPs?

[thuffner]

I have been getting tons of guests to my Board lately, and am suspecting them to be Googlebots, as they really haven't done anything on the Board.

Is there a specific IP that Googlebots have? Or any way I can tell if there is a bot?

Thanks in advance.

[Talisman]

Most of the search engine bots are easy to identify. All of Google's bots show up with this useragent in the sessions table of your database:

"Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

(Check the "session" table using phpmyadmin.)

The IP addresses they show up with are sequentially numbered, so that's another indicator to look for.

If I remember correctly, Altavista bots are also easy to spot the same way.

I've found the IP ranges for other bots by either resolving curious IP addresses or tracing them at either RIPE, ARIN, APNIC, or JPNIC. (Sorry, haven't bothered to write down the IP ranges.)