BTW, I just tried pinging ns01.army.mil...no reply. :( 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:

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Maybe you should ping NS01.ARMY.MIL about 2400 times in 3 hour and see

if

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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