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Re: netscan.org - broadcast ICMP list
From: epperson () VAK12ED EDU (W.C.)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:40:14 EST
:http://netscan.org has the first (relatively) complete database of ICMP :directed broadcast networks ("smurf amplifiers"). All allocated IP addresses :ending in .0 or .255 have been pinged and measured, so it's complete short of :pinging the whole 'Net. The people over at Smurf Amplifier Registry ( http://www.powertech.no/smurf/ ) have had such a project going for a pretty long time: -- 32508 networks have been probed with the SAR 15969 of them are currently broken 7208 have been fixed after being listed here
Hmmm. netscan.org reports 144,047 "broken" networks. Either their effort is on a higher order of magnitude than SAR's, or it all depends on what the definition of "network" is.... -- W.C. Epperson "I have great faith in fools. Chief of Systems Engineering Self-confidence, my friends call it." Security Officer Emeritus --Edgar Allen Poe-- Curmudgeon-for-Life Virginia Dept. of Education epperson () pen k12 va us
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