Re: Research - Valid Data Gathering vs. Annoying Other

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> To the original poster and others: Do host a web server on port 80 of the
> machines involved in the probe.

if i think i might be under attack from machine X, i would definitely
not launch a browser to X, especially if i ran internet exploder.

i think it would be useful if the entry one got by

   whois -h whois.(arin|apnic|lacnic|ripe).net X

returned, among the usual bumph, a comment such as

   experiment being conducted, see http://Y/

randy