Cluttermagnet Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 I continue to be amazed at how much the internet 'noise level' has picked up in recent months. I run Zone Alarm on this box and can remember when you used to get maybe one to two hundred pings per day. Lately, it is 500 several times per day. Leave the computer for an hour or two and the hit counter is pegged at 500. Clear it out and let it start counting up again. In a few more hours, you have another five hundred. So we must be talking about one or more thousands of pings per day. This is just _way_ up from what I remember from just a few months ago. I would say we are talking at least an order of magnitude increase here (10x). This very much reminds me of the alarming rate of increase of spam, also a very fast grower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Cluttermagnet,I have broken this out from the Mimail topic since it really deserves a topic of its own.I too have noticed this.One day last week we received such a ping assault that for a while it was hard to even keep a 16kbps/11khz audio stream going. Our firewall was dropping the packets, but they were coming so fast it was eating bandwidth even to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Definitely! I posted a note in a port scans thread just last Tuesday commenting on the same thing. -----------The firewalled Sieb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsden11 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Are any of you using hardware or is it just software firewalls? One way to cut down on this extra activity is to not respond to pings. Do the various software firewalls have this feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Our firewall was dropping the packets (see post above), not responding to them. There were just so many that it was eating up bandwidth big time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 I am using a software firewall only - NIS. It doesn't respond to the pings, but alerts me that port scans are happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_P Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Wow!!I have multiple pcs connected and am using a router which is dropping the pings before they get thru so the pcs aren't being burdened by the ping activity. With the price of routers these days it might be an inexpensive way to increase pc performance and gain some security to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicDragon Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Are any of you using hardware or is it just software firewalls? One way to cut down on this extra activity is to not respond to pings. Do the various software firewalls have this feature?The one that i run in linux has that feature, and i made sure it didn't respond to pings.It doesn't log the activity though, so i can't really see what's going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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