Re: synchronized pings

[Javier Coso Gutierrez <coso@gul.uc3m.es>]

El 10 de oct de 2002, a las 09:31 +0000, P. Ook escribio:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've found 'synchronized pings' in my logs from several hosts all around the world.
> Today they where 11 hosts more or less doing ping to my Debian box at the same time
> (11 pings in the same second). Sure this is not a DOS attack, almost for my server,
> but i can't understand why they are pinging me all at the same time, three o more
> times a day. Any ideas?
> 
> Searching in the logs I found pings from same of theese hosts a month ago, but in that
> days they were only 3-5 hosts pinging me at the same time...
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
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Hi!!

	These could be what people said  "smurf attack". Take a look at:
	
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1998-01.html

	I think this is the problem you.ve got or it is similar

Bye!
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