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Microsoft BingPreview extended the source IP ranges #11938

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tuttle opened this issue Aug 4, 2017 · 1 comment
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Microsoft BingPreview extended the source IP ranges #11938

tuttle opened this issue Aug 4, 2017 · 1 comment

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@tuttle
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tuttle commented Aug 4, 2017

Hi, our sites gets 32.632 requests having "BingPreview" in user agent string within 24 hours. Source IP address counts are distributed like this (only first three octets):

      7 40.77.176
   1300 40.77.177
   1320 40.77.178
   1271 40.77.179
   5088 65.55.210
    291 65.55.213
   4685 131.253.25
   5567 131.253.27
    711 157.55.12
   1665 157.55.2
   5798 199.30.24
   4929 199.30.25

In piwik/core/Tracker/VisitExcluded.php these ranges are defined:

            // Live/Bing/MSN
            '64.4.0.0/18',
            '65.52.0.0/14',
            '157.54.0.0/15',
            '157.56.0.0/14',
            '157.60.0.0/16',
            '207.46.0.0/16',
            '207.68.128.0/18',
            '207.68.192.0/20',
            '131.253.26.0/20',
            '131.253.24.0/20',

so it looks like Microsoft started to use new IP ranges, e.g. 199.30.16.0/20 a big one (DNS resolves these as "msnbot").

Are you interested in having the list in VisitExcluded.php up to date? Because Piwik also detect this bot by substring search in user agent string, so missing IP detection might not be a big deal...

@mattab
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mattab commented Sep 18, 2017

Hi @tuttle
I think it's worth keeping the IP addresses up to date, if possible. Would you be able to create a pull request for this change? thanks

@justinvelluppillai justinvelluppillai added this to the For Prioritization milestone Oct 27, 2022
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