Re: netscan.org - broadcast ICMP list

[epperson () VAK12ED EDU (W.C.)]

> :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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