[ale] Pings from Bellsouth ADSL IPs

Mike Millson mmillson at meritonlinesystems.com
Tue Aug 19 10:59:45 EDT 2003


Thanks, Jim, for shedding some light on this. 

Why am I not surprised a M$haft security flaw is at the bottom of this?

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:51, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> This should help to explain it some: 
> 
>   http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg12441.html
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Mike
> > Millson
> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 August, 2003 09:04
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: [ale] Pings from Bellsouth ADSL IPs
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone else noticed a whole bunch of pings from Bellsouth ADSL IP
> > addresses over the last few days? We drop + log the requests, and I have
> > seen line after line of ping entries in the log file the last few days,
> > and they all seem to be different Bellsouth IP addresses. Is this some
> > kind of exploit attempt? I can't imagine hundreds of different people,
> > all using Bellsouth ADSL, wanting to ping our network all of a sudden.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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