Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years
I guess no one told them that someone might consider this an attack? I have set up detectors where pinging consecutive "honeypot" ip addresses results in the source IP address being blacklisted for a day or two. ---------------------------- Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years No door-to-door canvassing here: This census involved the direction of some 3 billion pings toward 2.8 billion allocated Internet addresses from three machines over the course of two months. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20390?netht=101107dailynews2&&nladname=101107dailynews or http://tinyurl.com/37fgua The press release is located at http://www.isi.edu/news/news.php?story=178
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Roy wrote: You will want: http://www.isi.edu/ant/address/index.html -Hank
I guess no one told them that someone might consider this an attack? I have set up detectors where pinging consecutive "honeypot" ip addresses results in the source IP address being blacklisted for a day or two.
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Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years
No door-to-door canvassing here: This census involved the direction of some 3 billion pings toward 2.8 billion allocated Internet addresses from three machines over the course of two months.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20390?netht=101107dailynews2&&nladname=101107dailynews
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The press release is located at
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I guess no one told them that someone might consider this an attack?
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHD3eTElUlCLUT2d0RAmyaAKCjU8XWlNEb7PWuWY+zz7nYc9LCBACgrp/r pPnxCKmRAwm1No9pMOGT3YI= =/0ak -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this: "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!" The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :) jms
You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails.... Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this:
"HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
jms
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....
Got tons of those... ...and BlackIce, DShield, Norton, SamSpade, and all the rest :) But there were also lots of people who took time out of their busy day to personally write their own flaming emails, rather than just relying on the boilerplate reports many of the packages above commonly send out. I felt honored :) jms
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this:
"HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
jms
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....
Or a place on dshield's top 10.
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this:
"HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
jms
Ok. To make my own contribution to this thread hijack somewhat operational... How many people have had to add to their NOC/Abuse desk SOP: "When someone calls threatening that they are the FBI/CIA/NSA/Your grandmother returned from the dead... <something, something, something> but essentially, "Don't Panic. And they are basically a crackpot."" Deepak Gadi Evron wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....
Or a place on dshield's top 10.
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this:
"HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
jms
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