Security Incidents: Re: 8 hours of pinging

[bobfe () GW MERRILLCLARK COM (Bob Fayne)]

I a similar amount of pings show up on my @Home machine.

A lot of the addresses were resolving to *.akamaitechnologies.com.

When I wrote to them, I got a response that they are doing some sort of
'mapping the internet' for content delivery.  What it boils down to is
that if you hit the right site at the right time you might be randomly
selected to be slow pinged from all over the world for several hours.

What really annoyed me was that my machine denies all incoming echo requests.
They never got a single ping response, but kept trying for hours.

It's gotta be the lamest idea I've heard, but that's what they told me.

I have no way of knowing if that's what happened to you since you didn't
include any logs.

At 09:20 AM 3/20/2000, jlindstr () UIUC EDU wrote:
> I have a machine on the @Home network whose logs I monitor in
> real-time.  Last night from 12:40am to about 8:35am (central standard us
> time), the machine was continously pinged, at a rate of 5 to 10 times per
> minute, from machines all over the world.  I don't think this was intended
> as a DDoS, due to the low rate of firings, but what else could this have been?