Geoff@SRI-CSL.ARPA (the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow) (11/30/85)
Having recently rehomed our system to a local Ethernet, behind a LSI-11/23 gateway running the BBN software, i've made notice of strange behavior on the part of BBN C/70 hosts. It seems that whenever a host on our local net (192.12.33) opens up a connection to a C/70 host on the ARPANET, the C/70 starts sending a never ending stream of ICMP messages to us ever 4 seconds -- these messages never stop -- even after we close the connection. Currently, our gateway is being bombarded by four such systems every 4 seconds. This behavior seems undesirable at best. Can anyone explain it? What purpose it serve? What would one need to know from our gateway at the frequency of every 4 seconds? Is their a method to issue a cease and desist order to the originating host? This would seem a great hog of IMP and gateway resources, inter-IMP trunk bandwidth, and in a worst case scenario, a tad bit expen$ive if ones gateway were on the other side of a Value Added Network. g
sdyer@BBNCC5.ARPA (11/30/85)
It's a bug. I'd be interested to know what hosts you're connecting to, since we haven't had this problem here in quite some time. Why don't we take this "off line"--I'm sure the rest of the list can do without such methods of problem reporting.