LOL! I believe that the question should be: Why are you pinging me? Tell me what admin who sees thousands of ping from one host does not investigation the nature? Do mean to say that if you were to log thousands of pings, you would ignore them? Also many ping attacks start with harmless ping probes. Marc -----Original Message----- From: James Thomason [mailto:james@divide.org] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:00 PM To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: nanog@merit.edu; Quibell, Marc Subject: RE: [SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out If I did, and they responded negatively, I would tell them YOU said it was a good idea. Seriously, why should the administrators of *.army.mil care if I test packet response time between our networks? Is this an illegal activity I am unaware of? On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
At 02:16 PM 10/26/2001 -0500, Quibell, Marc wrote:
Maybe you should ping NS01.ARMY.MIL about 2400 times in 3 hour and see
if
you don't get a visit? Pinging a website 2 times means nothing..
How about 441 times in 2 hours? :)
Marc
-- TTFN, patrick