When researchers, or whoever, claim their scanning an altruistic service, I ask them if they would mind someone coming to their home and trying to open all the doors and windows every night. 

 -mel beckman

On Jun 19, 2022, at 6:14 PM, J. Hellenthal via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

 Had to send these guys a cease and desist a few years back as they became so noisy it was causing to much of a disconnect between information we were trying to compare.



Personally I don't care who you are. Probably not hiring your services (free or not), stay off my edge.

-- 
 J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.

On Jun 19, 2022, at 13:56, Amreesh Phokeer <amreesh.phokeer@gmail.com> wrote:


Project Sonar from Rapid7 conducts internet-wide surveys and is kind enough to share the data with researchers:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 10:24 PM Mark Seiden <mis@seiden.com> wrote:
btw, if you want to do this yourself, you might consider using something like


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Amreesh Phokeer