[SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out

Fri Oct 26 20:10:16 UTC 2001

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 at divide.org]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:00 PM
To: Patrick W. Gilmore
Cc: nanog at 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
> 
> 