Hi Tim & Tony! > Yeah, you have it right....back in April and May the discussion took place. > It was finally tracked down to some annoying pop-up ads like the X-10 > ad that triggered a flurry of DNS hits to locate an ad server close to > your location.
AFAIK, they not only do that for ad servers, they also do that regular web sites. Each time I was visiting the web site of a computer magazine I read I would get hit by these "floods"... > I can't remember the name of the company who had this brainstorm > (30+ hits in 3 seconds?!?! WTF?). The product of the company which was mentionned at the time is not supposed to do that (it's only supposed to ping you if I remember well). The problem is more likely caused by a combination of that product with another product (from another company...). BTW, I did try to contact the persons responsible from the web sites that was "probing" me in this way and never got any answer... )-; )-; )-; Later... Nick PS: The problem is getting worse than it was at the time... PPS: I believe it was Charles (Steinkuehler) which posted a code snippet way back then which you could add to your scripts to add additionnal rules which would silently deny these "probes"... _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
