FPL is now web-crawling?

[CJB]

I took at a look at my server logs tonite... and got a surprise -

Florida Power and Light has a web crawler pounding my http and ftp sites, and at times, pounding pop3/smpt server (which is currently off line).

So.. I guess the phone call goes out tomorrow... which I'm sure they'll deny any activity.

This is the sort of antics I get from universities, and never from Google or Bing or such, which are very well behaved.

Makes me wonder what the power company wants with the information they find.

[TucsonMTB]

Odd indeed. Wonder if it is really theirs or if someone else now "owns" one of their servers.

[rholmes69]

I have a friend who is in the internet advertising business, actually he's based out of FL. He use to do a lot with the cell phone companies, satellite and cable, etc. He says the switch has been made recently to the power companies as the de-regulation of the industry and influx of competition among states power providers is heating up. Might be a sign of the times for your area and a "pre-emptive" strike or fact gathering mission on their part...

[CJB]

Its their IP, and their domain, that would be exceedingly hard to spoof.

155.109.5.21 GIFL3.FPL.COM

Its theirs

[jeepster09]

How about it is just a bored employee on the night shift? :001_huh:

[OldLincoln]

I didn't keep up with the internet stuff and am trying to understand why they or anybody would do that. I don't question they are, but it's the why. What useful information do they see?