On 28-Feb-01, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Colin Wenzel wrote:
>> Just a question regarding Miami....
>> Whenever I run "Amster", several times an hour I get
>> a little miami pop up & warn that a Ping Flood was detected
>> from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>>
>> Is something I should be watching out for or is this something
>> that Amster is doing to cause this problem.
> You know what a ping flood is (I hope) but in this case I think there
> in no problem. Amster/Napster will ping other hosts to help determine
> best download source and I suspect this is a case of Miami(Dx)'s ping
> flood protection being a little too over cautious. I recall having
> the same problem while using Napster on my Bro's pc (while
> masquerading with MiamiDx) so I don't think anyone's trying to do
> anything to you specifically.
> Jonathan Adamczewski.
I suspect you are correct, as I have noted that I seldom get a repeat
of an IP address lately.
If someone was doing it, they would most likely have the same IP
on multiple occasions..
So I guess Miami's threshhold is set a little low....
Regards
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