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Re: Research - Valid Data Gathering vs. Annoying Other

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Aug 6 17:49:30 2004

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:48:38 -1000
To: Daniel Reed <n@ml.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> 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


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