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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Matt Gostick wrote:
> I have just setup some ipfw rules to checkout some traffic to one of my
> boxes.  I have three servers, only one of which has weird traffic.  It
> is getting ping'd on a five minute interval from approx 3 to 8 different
> ip addresses within the same second.  For example:
[ ... ]
> I've just started denying pings to the box...

There are a bunch of network monitoring tools which will do something like 
this, normally used by ISPs and the like to verify that a server is up; you 
should contact whoever owns the source IPs and ask them what they're doing.

-- 
-Chuck