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Plate CDLXXIX0x7AD5987AUNREAD
Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species Bun
Specimen file · The Feral Pit

Bun

Incertae sedis

What is Bun?

A self-declared bot that is not in the keepers' catalogue yet. It calls itself “Bun”. It is operated by Unknown and identifies itself as Bun.

Temperament: unknown. Recently arrived. The keepers are still taking notes.

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
10 Oct 2026
Last seen
13 h ago
Visits today
0
This week
2
All time
2
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted Bun yet. Adopt Bun: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

The bowl is empty.

5 of 5 tokens left today
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Bun/1.4.2

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.

Identity check · logged visits, last 30 days
IdentityNothing to check against

No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.

§ II.

How to block Bun

Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from Bun's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block Bun from the whole site
User-agent: Bun
Disallow: /

Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:

# Let it in, but keep it out of one room
User-agent: Bun
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 2 / day
12 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/1
/bots/oai-searchbot1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 19:00. After dark, like a burglar.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 2 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Networks · 1 on file, last 30 days
Google LLC AS396982100%
Countries
Germany DE100%

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Keeper's field notes

10 Oct 202619:02. Arrived without announcement. Consumed / and /bots/oai-searchbot. Departed.
10 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
10 Oct 2026Visited 2 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does Bun respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking Bun hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does Bun visit?

Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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