[8876] in bugtraq
Re: netscan.org - broadcast ICMP list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.C. (Jay) Epperson)
Thu Dec 31 14:03:42 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:40:14 EST
Reply-To: epperson@pen.k12.va.us
From: "W.C. (Jay) Epperson" <epperson@VAK12ED.EDU>
X-To: herscher@PRIMENET.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <001a01be341e$cf10cac0$010a0a0a@axis>; from "Adam Herscher" at
Dec 30, 98 10:03 am
> :http://netscan.org has the first (relatively) complete database of ICMP
> :directed broadcast networks ("smurf amplifiers"). All allocated IP
> addresses
> :ending in .0 or .255 have been pinged and measured, so it's complete short
> of
> :pinging the whole 'Net.
>
>
> The people over at Smurf Amplifier Registry
> ( http://www.powertech.no/smurf/ ) have had such a project going for a
> pretty long time:
> --
> 32508 networks have been probed with the SAR
> 15969 of them are currently broken
> 7208 have been fixed after being listed here
Hmmm. netscan.org reports 144,047 "broken" networks. Either their
effort is on a higher order of magnitude than SAR's, or it all
depends on what the definition of "network" is....
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