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Subject: Weird Ping requests
From: Erick Brockway (ebrockwayEARTHLINK.NET)
Date: Sun Apr 16 2000 - 23:11:44 CDT

    Looked at my AtGuard log last night, and something weird showed up there.
    Started with;
 4/15/00 19:36:46.383 NDIS Filter Rule "Default Inbound ICMP" permitted (206.204.217.22,0). Details:
Inbound ICMP request
Local address is (209.178.128.182)
Remote address is (206.204.217.22)
Message type is "Echo Reply"
Process name is "N/A"
    Had ten of these from this IP within three seconds. Then it started coming from different IP addys, and by 19:37:06:155 there were over 300 pings from five different machines. The machines themselves were from all over the globe; two from Poland, one from Chicago, one from Canada, and one from Thailand.
    I have this stuff blocked, but all this took place in a little over fifteen seconds. What could send pings that fast, and what is this guy hoping to accomplish?
    Others at grc.com/shieldsup are starting to report the same.
    
Erick Brockway

"I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that....That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time."
Al Gore in a Time Interview, on the EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT (EITC). Now, this is interesting, since the EITC became law in 1975, a year BEFORE Gore was elected to Congress.
(Source: Time Magazine November 1, 1999 Vol. 154 No. 18)

http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html