IP address question from an IP address newbie

[eluser]kgill[/eluser]
Yes it's a bot but not in the sense that you're thinking, 65.55.209.81, 82, 83, etc. belong to the MSN bot for MSN search - it was indexing your site and likely trying to follow the links for ratings. Your first order of business is to set up a robots.txt file (google it). If you look at your logs and have them resolve IP's you'd see that the IP belonged to msnbot-65-55-209-83.search.msn.com - you can also figure that out from a command line using: nslookup <ip address>