On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:31:34PM -1000, Jason Forester wrote:
As the message says, this is not an attack of any kind. It is a system which collects metrics for our Footprint Content Delivery System.
The system is attempting to determine the closest servers to your network, to provide good service to your customers when they download from Footprint customers such as Microsoft.
Since no one has asked the relivant question, I'll ask. Does this system probe networks only in response for a request for content, or are networks monitored even when there are no requests for content? While I don't think {ping,dns,other} probes in response to a content request are the best way to offer better service to the user, they are at least in response to a user request, and proportional to the number of user requests. I would find it hard to call them 'wrong', or 'bad'. Probing other networks 'just in case' a request comes from that network is highly ineffective, introduces useless load to the network, and is just plain rude. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org