Re: 8 hours of pinging

[epadin () WAGWEB COM (Ed Padin)]

FYI,

I've seen this happen as well. The pings seem to come from all over the
place. They do not come rapidly as in a flood. perhaps it's a tribe-like
scan of some sort? I don't get any malformed packets just straight
ICMP-ECHO-REQUEST.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Lindstrom [mailto:jlindstr () UIUC EDU]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:21 AM
> To: INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: 8 hours of pinging
>
>
> 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