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8 hours of pinging

From: jlindstr () UIUC EDU (Jim Lindstrom)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:20:45 -0600


I have a machine on the @Home network whose logs I monitor in 
real-time.  Last night from 12:40am to about 8:35am (central standard us 
time), the machine was continously pinged, at a rate of 5 to 10 times 
per minute, from machines all over the world.  I don't think this was 
intended as a DDoS, due to the low rate of firings, but what else could 
this have been?

--
Jim Lindstrom
jlindstr () uiuc edu

Current thread:

Generic checksums (MD5 DB) Ville (Mar 17)
- 8 hours of pinging Jim Lindstrom (Mar 20)
  - Re: 8 hours of pinging Rick Ballard (Mar 21)
  - Re: 8 hours of pinging Robert Graham (Mar 21)
  - Re: 8 hours of pinging Bob Fayne (Mar 22)
    - Re: 8 hours of pinging Jim Lindstrom (Mar 22)
    - 8 hours of pinging Foley, Michael P (Mar 22)
  - Re: 8 hours of pinging Mike A. Harris (Mar 24)
- Re: Generic checksums (MD5 DB) Filip M. Gieszczykiewicz (Mar 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Generic checksums (MD5 DB) Jon Burdge (Mar 21)
- Re: Generic checksums (MD5 DB) Thomas J. Kluegel (Mar 21)