James, Good to see that you haven't lost your fire... However, I think the central question here is one of degree. Testing connectivity, latency, etc. is normal network maintenance kind of stuff. Flooding is Denial of Service. I don't know what the right answer is in terms of the boundary between the two, but obviously, I think we can agree that sending an occasional ping to measure/monitor is a very different thing from sending a few thousand packets per second towards someone unsolicited. If we can agree on that, then I will bow back out and return you to the argument about exactly where to place the boundary. Owen James Thomason wrote:

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:

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At 02:16 PM 10/26/2001 -0500, Quibell, Marc wrote:

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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? :)

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Marc

-- TTFN, patrick

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