>Maybe you should ping NS01.ARMY.MIL about 2400 times in 3 hour and see if
>you don't get a visit? Pinging a website 2 times means nothing..
How about 441 times in 2 hours? 
If I did, and they responded negatively, I would tell them YOU said it was
a good idea.
Seriously, why should the administrators of *.army.mil care if I test
packet response time between our networks? Is this an illegal activity I
am unaware of?
James,
    Good to see that you haven't lost your fire...
    However, I think the central question here is one of degree. Testing
connectivity,
latency, etc. is normal network maintenance kind of stuff. Flooding is Denial of
Service.
I don't know what the right answer is in terms of the boundary between the two,
but
obviously, I think we can agree that sending an occasional ping to
measure/monitor
is a very different thing from sending a few thousand packets per second towards
someone unsolicited. If we can agree on that, then I will bow back out and
return you to the argument about exactly where to place the boundary.
Owen
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