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