202.8.43.199
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
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202.8.43.199 is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler via the subnet 202.8.40.0/22.
- ISP
- Ahrefs Crawler B
- Usage Type
- Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
- ASN
- AS140577
- Hostname(s)
- sardine967.ahrefs.net
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
18 from
7 distinct
reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Recent reports
We have received reports of abusive activity from this IP address within the last week.
This IP is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler.
Shared services like this are often reported for traffic that is not abuse, so review the reports
before blocking.
| Reporter | IoA Timestamp (UTC) | Comment | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 bancix |
Heimdall NIDS: Automatic ban triggered. Reason: RST_LIMIT_EXCEEDED (8/8)
|
Port Scan | |
| Anonymous |
IP matched detection query 20 more in short time bad rqs.
|
Brute-Force Web App Attack Hacking | |
| Anonymous |
IP matched detection query 20 more in short time bad rqs.
|
Brute-Force Web App Attack Hacking | |
| Anonymous |
IP matched detection query 20 more in short time bad rqs.
|
Brute-Force Web App Attack Hacking | |
| 🇮🇳 dineshskt4all |
|
IoT Targeted | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇮🇪 Jim Keir |
2026-07-17 18:06:09 202.8.43.199 Bad bot, blocking Mozilla/5.0
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇮🇪 Jim Keir |
2026-06-05 18:03:16 202.8.43.199 Bad bot, blocking Mozilla/5.0
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack |
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