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The way to check googlebot (in a way that will be resistant to expansion of Googlebot's IP ranges in the future) is to perform hostname lookup, with dns lookup
by judge2020 5y ago
The way to check googlebot (in a way that will be resistant to expansion of Googlebot's IP ranges in the future) is to perform hostname lookup, with dns lookup as well to verify that the rDNS isn't a lie: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/verifying-googlebot https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
- lucb1e 5y agoIndeed, this was one of the things I considered (note I'm not OP), but then I didn't really want to rely on DNS. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=it's+always+DNS https://duckduckgo.com/?q=it's+always+DNS