Folks, I wanted an answer to a simple question about network 1/8 that netcom is routing today. But, netcom has no obvious phone number for a noc. We default out esnet and thus the following traceroute: traceroute to 1.144.153.46 (1.144.153.46), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 lanl-gw (192.16.1.1) 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2 esnet-rt1 (192.16.1.241) 4 ms 2 ms 4 ms 3 llnl-atms.es.net (134.55.24.1) 82 ms 98 ms 206 ms 4 ames-llnl.es.net (134.55.4.161) 41 ms 41 ms 46 ms 5 scl-ca-gw3.netcom.net (163.179.51.16) 68 ms 67 ms 55 ms 6 * t3-1.chw-il-gw1.netcom.net (163.179.220.189) 134 ms 229 ms 7 * * chw-il-gw3.netcom.net (163.179.132.26) 121 ms 8 t1-2.chi-il-gw1.netcom.net (163.179.220.222) 117 ms 106 ms * 9 chi-il-gw12.netcom.net (163.179.17.31) 114 ms 122 ms 105 ms 10 chi-il-gw1.netcom.net (163.179.17.1) 113 ms 120 ms 119 ms 11 chi-il-gw12.netcom.net (163.179.17.31) 118 ms 117 ms * 12 chi-il-gw1.netcom.net (163.179.17.1) 143 ms 105 ms 157 ms 13 * chi-il-gw12.netcom.net (163.179.17.31) 110 ms 121 ms 14 chi-il-gw1.netcom.net (163.179.17.1) 121 ms 194 ms * 15 * * chi-il-gw12.netcom.net (163.179.17.31) 116 ms Looks like they have a little problem in chicago. WHOIS says: NETCOM On-line Communications Services (NETCOM2-DOM) 4000 Moorpark Ave, Suite 209 San Jose, CA 95117 Domain Name: NETCOM.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Hood, Robert (RH505) hoodr@NETCOM.COM (408) 983-1510 Record last updated on 02-Apr-93. Record created on 02-Apr-93. Domain servers in listed order: NETCOMSV.NETCOM.COM 192.100.81.101 NS.NETCOM.COM 192.100.81.105 But, that number gets you into trying to find someone to talk to by punching numbers, non of which are appropriate. We are getting a number of probes from various network 1 host address. As well as generating some packets with network 1 source addresses ourselves. (these are now blocked, we try to only send packets from networks we are responsible for) Anyone have an idea what is causing this? Should I be worried? Thanks, Phil