MSNBot

Identification of the MSNBot Internet robot. These include owner, description, HTTP user agent and whether this robot adheres to the robot exclusion standard.

Owner	MSN Search
Country	USA
Description	MSNBot is a prototype web-crawling robot. It is used to collect documents from the web to build a searchable index. Currently MSN still use Inktomi for their search content.
IP Addresses	65.54.188.143 65.54.188.146  207.46.98.42
HTTP User Agent	msnbot/0.11 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) msnbot/0.3 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Exclusion	This robot supports the robots.txt exclusion standard, which is described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#robotstxt. To stop the robot from visiting the /cgi-bin directory: User-agent: MSNBot Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Note, it does not look at the robots.txt file at each visit, but rather downloads the details every day. For this reason it may take a while for the robot to conform to the robots.txt file if changes have been made.
Further Info.	www.msnsearch.com/msnbot.htm

NAT August 2005 (Revised)