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Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Oct 12 01:51:42 2007
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:50:37 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
