I’m getting firewall events that show a block for an alleged fake google bot:
But if I check the host (as recommend by google: Googlebot and Other Google Crawler Verification | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers) it gives me this for an IP:
host 34.76.251.191
191.251.76.34.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 191.251.76.34.bc.googleusercontent.com.
This is a legit google bot… can you update your blocking list (rules 100035C en 100035D) for this?
Hmmm, I see.
Doing a WHOIS on that IP gives the following comment:
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See the first “Comment”:
The IP address under this Org-ID are in use by Google Cloud customers
This is someone renting server space from Google, not an official google crawler.
This is also supported by your quote:
the rDNS for the IP will end with googlebot.com if it’s owned by Google.
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