Pings

[Keith Mastin]

> Morning
>
> Thanks all who helped me out with my mixer issues, problem solved with
> that. Now for an issue that has been pestering me for about 2 months
> now.  During the normal course of a day I'm receiving 20-30 pings every
> minute from users of rogers.com which generally amounts to me reviewing
> about 1400 pings in logwatch daily.  On numerous occasions I've spoke
> with tech support who have redirected me to abuse-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org where I
> send all the logs of this activity to but they don't seem to do anything
> about it.
> I'm curious if there is a way to stop logging this completely as it
> makes reading logs extremely difficult.

kill icmp type 8 (echo request) at the firewall

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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070


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