Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

[Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>]

I guess no one told them that someone might consider this an attack?  I
have set up detectors where pinging consecutive "honeypot" ip addresses
results in the source IP address being blacklisted for a day or two.

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Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

No door-to-door canvassing here: This census involved the direction of
some 3 billion pings toward 2.8 billion allocated Internet addresses
from three machines over the course of two months.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20390?netht=101107dailynews2&&nladname=101107dailynews

or

http://tinyurl.com/37fgua


The press release is located at

http://www.isi.edu/news/news.php?story=178