On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Sven Knuth <[email protected]> wrote:
> at least I found the reason for the abuse.
>
> node.js starts many tests and one test
> (test/simple/test-dgram-send-error.js) is sending 1000-Request to random IPs
> to test the error handling, because the IPs should be unreachable, because
> its RANDOM.
> But due to ipv4 shortage many existing hosts have this "random" IPs and some
> were also answering.
> What a pity, my hoster saw this as scanning.
> And a overkill was, that the first random adress my server "scannded" was
> 6.147.249.44 and this adress belongs to "US Department of Defense Network".
> And JUST the second random ip was "7.33.58.97" and this belongs to "DoD
> Network Information Center".
> I think, the responsible person saw this in his logs and killed my server,
> because I wasn't answering his mail within 60 minutes.
>
> That means, SORRY node.js.
> IMHO it is the fault of bad testing und bad luck.
>
> In the future, it would be nice to have a bether documentation of the
> differrent test cases. Watching and testing many single files was very
> depressing.... :)
>
> Thanks for the Help

That's a bug in the test.  I'll fix it tomorrow.

Tracking bug: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/4730

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