[8845] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Ping from xfrsparc.tic.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John L. MacFarlane)
Tue Dec 7 11:55:28 1993
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 08:54:00 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: John.MacFarlane@software.com (John L. MacFarlane)
FYI,
>Return-Path: <smoot@tic.com>
>From: smoot@tic.com
>To: John.MacFarlane@software.com (John L. MacFarlane)
>Cc: smoot@tic.com, jsq@tic.com
>Subject: Re: Ping from xfrsparc.tic.com
>Date: Tue, 07 Dec 93 08:52:30 -0600
>
>>We periodically receive a ping from xfrsparc.tic.com [192.135.128.132]
>>and were wondering why this keeps occurring? I am not so concerned
>>with security but am rather curious why?
>
>We are gathering latency statistics for our publicaitons. If you do
>not want to be pinged, please let us know and we will delete you from
>the target list. We ping each host 4 times a day which puts a minimal
>load on any system in our target list.
>
>Smoot
>
John L. MacFarlane
john.macfarlane@software.com
