From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 06:48:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DCD37B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 06:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C9443F75 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 06:48:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 26576 invoked from network); 13 May 2003 13:48:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buddydog.org) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 May 2003 13:48:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3EC0F7AA.7090203@buddydog.org> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:48:26 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Pings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:48:30 -0000 I'm am getting regular, 1 second pings from an IP run by a South African ISP. If it wasn't for my DSL modem blinking right in front of me like a metronome, I probably wouldn't even notice it. And by using Ethereal (a packet sniffer) I can see the regular Pings coming in from there, although it recently changed IP address slightly. Now, it isn't enough to even remotely qualify as a DOS attack. It is merely one ping every second, sort of like checking to see if I'm still up. But nonetheless, it is annoying. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas what they might be up to? I've reported it to abuse on both my ISP and the controlling ISP, and it is slowly working its way through to resolution, but I'm still curious. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain