The idiots at AbuseIPDB are reporting Google bot and as a consequence it's being blocked on my end.

ID: 1738722698-796313-3457797865
Script version: CIDRAM v3.8.0
Date/Time: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:31:38 -0700
IP address: 66.249.66.1
Query: f=23&t=576
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.6834.159 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)
Signatures count: 1
Signatures reference: abuseipdb.php:L139
Why blocked: AbuseIPDB Lookup!
Why blocked (detailed): Your access to this page was denied because your IP address belongs to a network listed on a blacklist used by this website.
(If you believe that this is a mistake,click here to request removal).
Reconstructed URI:
Infractions: 1
ASN lookup: 15169
Country code lookup: US
Request method: GET
Hostname: crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
CAPTCHA state: Disabled.

ID: 1738724858-796369-4811869108
Script version: CIDRAM v3.8.0
Date/Time: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:07:38 -0700
IP address: 66.249.66.10
Query: f=23&t=517
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.6834.159 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)
Signatures count: 1
Signatures reference: abuseipdb.php:L139
Why blocked: AbuseIPDB Lookup!
Why blocked (detailed): Your access to this page was denied because your IP address belongs to a network listed on a blacklist used by this website.
(If you believe that this is a mistake,click here to request removal).
Reconstructed URI:
Infractions: 1
ASN lookup: 15169
Country code lookup: US
Request method: GET
Hostname: crawl-66-249-66-10.googlebot.com
CAPTCHA state: Disabled.

What's interesting is that they have been reporting these IP addresses for a while now and it's only now I'm seeing the block. Maybe its UA related? Why Google uses such a stupid UA I'll never know.

With my website anything that begins with a 66.249.xxx.xxx is a Google bot. Or at least that's been my observation for years now.