Asterias

Details for the Asterias Internet robot. Details for this robot include owner, description, HTTP user agent and whether this robot adheres to the robot exclusion standard.

Owner	Singingfish.com
Country	USA
Description	The robot gathers multimedia information for the web site Singing Fish. Some of its information os fed into the Real Player search. In the early days of this search engine the robot gained a poor reputation.  You may feel that it is worth accepting the robot to promote your site content.
IP Addresses
HTTP User Agent	asterias/2.0 asterias Crawler v4; +http://www.singingfish.com/help/spider.html
Exclusion	It looks like their this robot doesn't support the robots.txt exclusion standard, which is described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#robotstxt. You may want to try setting an entry in the robots.txt file. To stop the robot from visiting the /cgi-bin directory: User-agent: asterias Disallow: /cgi-bin
Further Info.	www.singingfish.com/help/spider.html

NAT August 2005 (Revised)