On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:58, der Mouse wrote: >> Ryan, How do you propose to choose nodes "randomly" ? > > Well, I didn't write that, but I assumed it meant something like > > sin.sin_addr = my_favourite_32bit_rng(); > > The v4 Internet is getting populated enough that that is becoming a > sane technique for doing that kind of statistical work (well, sane from > a statistical POV; it's often not so hot from an abuse POV).
Sometime in the late 90's I did (or tried) an SMTP transaction with every IP range in Scandinavia (or something like that, I forget the details). It was basically a full-time job for a couple weeks to deal with (of course most of the "feedback" came because I emailed everyone with an open SMTP relay and told them that they'd be submitted to whatever-the-open-relay-list-was-back-then within X days/weeks I've no idea if UDP/123 packets would cause more or less attention these days. As someone else suggested, have reverse DNS be something meaningful and I think you'd be okay. - ask _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
