Do this to a spoofed address, and you may violate your
ISP's AUP and find yourself cut off from service. Do
this to a compromised system, and you may not actually
get the compromise resolved. Contacting the upstream
ISP usually does the trick, as long as the ISP cares.

Steve

John Stevenson wrote:

> PING BOMB THEM!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hermit1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [FW1] hacker 194.73.175.25
>
> This is relevant only because my FW-1 logs show me this problem, but
> someone on this list must know the answer.  I am trying to get in touch
> with someone at bt.net (apparently in England) to get them to stop scanning
> my address space (currently on scan number 4), or maybe someone is spoofing
> their IP address.  The email addresses listed in RIPE do not exist.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> hermit1
>
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