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Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
From: Jonas Luster <jluster () d-fensive com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:06:09 -0700
* Joe Abley sez:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:37:16PM -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:Unfortunately, in this case I am not a customer of Digital Island in any way, nor have I given them authorization to hammer my network 441 times (and counting) in the last two hours.441 echo requests in two hours? That doesn't sound like a very big hammer :)
It is also way more than necessary to gather any kind of statistics or improve any kind of routing. 441/120 == one every 20 seconds. I cannot possibly imagine any circumstances in which this amount of "testing" is necessary if the remote end is some site outside the influence of Digital Island. Was the testing end 100 percent positive not to hit some dial up line it's keeping artificially up? Also, a generated IDS/Firewall log would imply some kind of blocking of those requests - if I don't get a reply at the first five tries why do I keep up probing the IP? And IF there was a reply - what about this test is so important that it has to be repeated in 20 second intervals? jonas -- Jonas M. Luster -- jluster () d-fensive com -- +1 408 768 4148 1024D/8B06BE75 -- 0E0A 8672 78B5 DB9F A911 1C04 2E20 4C9B 8B06 BE75 http://www.d-fensive.com (work) -- http://www.baysec.org/~jluster/ (play)
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- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? JC Dill (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Andy Walden (Oct 25)
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- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? JC Dill (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Andy Walden (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? James Thomason (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Christopher A. Woodfield (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Andy Walden (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Paul Vixie (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Steven J. Sobol (Oct 27)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Joe Abley (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Jonas Luster (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Alex Bligh (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Steve Schaefer (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Adam Herscher (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 25)
- Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 26)