I do have a website but it's not for general use. Definitely not doing any e-commerce, and at most it's just general computer information if it has any value at all.
However I noticed that people are sending ping requests to my computer, constantly. In fact I get around 8000 individual ICMP echo requests a day though each IP sending them send multiple packets.
I set my computer to stop replying to them to see if it would stop. Nope.
What value is there is to sending these if I don't respond to them? Anyone have similar data?
Just curious of what people think of these and why one would send these to a random not so useful machine...
(For now I'm ignoring all other internet sourced oddities like privilege escalation and resource commandeering. If you wish to comment about these, sure, just make sure you're saying what kind of packet. I'm more curious about ping packets which as far as I know has no value to other people, they could just HTTP my machine to know it's up!)
However I noticed that people are sending ping requests to my computer, constantly. In fact I get around 8000 individual ICMP echo requests a day though each IP sending them send multiple packets.
I set my computer to stop replying to them to see if it would stop. Nope.
What value is there is to sending these if I don't respond to them? Anyone have similar data?
Just curious of what people think of these and why one would send these to a random not so useful machine...
(For now I'm ignoring all other internet sourced oddities like privilege escalation and resource commandeering. If you wish to comment about these, sure, just make sure you're saying what kind of packet. I'm more curious about ping packets which as far as I know has no value to other people, they could just HTTP my machine to know it's up!)
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