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Subject: Re: 8 hours of pinging
From: Ed Padin (epadinWAGWEB.COM)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 07:51:35 CST

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:jlindstrUIUC.EDU]
>Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:21 AM
>To: INCIDENTSSECURITYFOCUS.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
>jlindstruiuc.edu
>