Re: 5000 ICMP Ping's a DAY! Any more precautions to take?

From: Nicholas Suan (nsuan_at_nonexiste.net)
Date: 12/13/03 

Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:15:52 +0000 (UTC)

destro_99@hotmail.com (Adonis) wrote in
news:bf9abad7.0312121711.2c45deab@posting.google.com:

> I'm getting about 5000 of these a day from what seems like different
> IP's all across comcasts cable 68.*.*.* network What should i do?? if
> anything.. if i bring Kerio firewall down eventually... my internt
> light on the cable modem will go solid with use and bog the machine
> down.
>
>

You're lucky, I've gotten about 5,000 pings from Nachia infected hosts in
the past two hours. The only thing I can really do about it is drop it at
the border, and hope it stops after the first of the year.

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