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James,
Good to see that you haven't lost your fire...
However, I think the central question here is one of degree. Testing
connectivity,
latency, etc. is normal network maintenance kind of stuff. Flooding is Denial of
Service.
I don't know what the right answer is in terms of the boundary between the two,
but
obviously, I think we can agree that sending an occasional ping to
measure/monitor
is a very different thing from sending a few thousand packets per second towards
someone unsolicited. If we can agree on that, then I will bow back out and
return you to the argument about exactly where to place the boundary.
Owen
James Thomason wrote:
> If I did, and they responded negatively, I would tell them YOU said it was
> a good idea.
>
> Seriously, why should the administrators of *.army.mil care if I test
> packet response time between our networks? Is this an illegal activity I
> am unaware of?
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> >
> > At 02:16 PM 10/26/2001 -0500, Quibell, Marc wrote:
> > >
> > >Maybe you should ping NS01.ARMY.MIL about 2400 times in 3 hour and see if
> > >you don't get a visit? Pinging a website 2 times means nothing..
> >
> > How about 441 times in 2 hours? :)
> >
> >
> > >Marc
> >
> > --
> > TTFN,
> > patrick
> >
> >
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