I noticed an extreme amount of disk activity on my box this afternoon. I suspiciously checked syslog, and noticed that I was being pinged. I guess that in itself isn't a huge deal, but here is a slightly editted logcheck report from the past hour: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apr 5 19:14:04 ethereal icmplogd: ping from [137.99.137.149] Apr 5 19:15:05 ethereal icmplogd: ping from [200.210.153.104] Apr 5 19:20:52 ethereal icmplogd: ping from acoiro.resnet.sunysb.edu [129.49.231.175] Apr 5 19:23:35 ethereal icmplogd: ping from h227-121.mohawk.albany.edu [169.226.227.121] Apr 5 19:24:43 ethereal icmplogd: ping from ppp220.57-253-207.hull.mt.videotron.net [207.253.57.220] Apr 5 19:34:52 ethereal icmplogd: ping from dhcp-66-19.runet.edu [137.45.66.19] Apr 5 19:39:38 ethereal icmplogd: ping from h204-208.reznet.uwo.ca [129.100.204.208] Apr 5 19:49:50 ethereal icmplogd: ping from ludewig.oswego.edu [129.3.134.155] Apr 5 19:50:36 ethereal icmplogd: ping from PM3-1.Port38.sayre.cyber-quest.com [208.151.189.53] Apr 5 19:56:17 ethereal icmplogd: ping from 24-29-136-198.nyc.rr.com [24.29.136.198] Apr 5 19:56:54 ethereal icmplogd: ping from npwilson.reshall.ucsd.edu [128.54.145.102] What should I make of this? I don't ever recall being this popular in the past, but now everyone seems to be pinging me. Is this an attempted DOS attack, or something else? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
