[40140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Code Red growth stats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Aug 2 08:28:30 2001
From: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>
Message-Id: <200108021225.HAA09935@bluejay.creighton.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 7:25:47 CDT
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I did a poor job of formating this message.
Somebody else said this (Idon't remember who at the moment):
> Indeed. I've seen 1215 probes since the start of August, and a rough glance
> shows something like 30% or more are dialups, cable modems and DSL lines.
> Better than 50% appear to be addresses without INADDR.
I said this:
> Here too I think a sociologist might be useful (by the way I am not a
> sociologist, I disagree with some sociology, but I have lunch with
> one or more nearly every week).
>
> What is likely to be the population characteristic most common among
> xDSL connected folk?
>
> I think it is small [home|business|shop] relatively unsophisticated,
> poorly staffed and more likely to have all the bells and whistles on.
>
> And maybe the most frequently occuring thing in the population.
I am sorry to have stolen somebody else's words--I did not mean to do that.
