Bingbot causing 404 errors

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We have recently been seeing a large number of 404 errors that are being created from the Bing web crawler. I have verified that the IP is in fact a Bing machine but just don't know why they are attempting the URL's they are trying. I don't want to use a robots.txt file to just tell them not to crawl my site at all but at the same time I don't want them to continue requesting pages that don't exist. Is there any way to tell where Bing is getting a specific URL from? I tried searching Google using [link:www.mywebsite.com/pagename/] and nothing is found which leads me to believe the bot is doing something it isn't supposed to rather than my site having a bad URL.

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