gov pings

[Harmon Seaver]

  I'm getting a lot of pings on my server from
linux.plano.gov -- like several times a day for weeks now.
He has never, however, visited the web site
(http://www.oshkoshbygosh.org), just pings it.
   Anybody got any idea what he's up to? I discovered it
last night when my server got some sort of finger loop
weirdness that really appeared like some sort of DOS attack,
and he was the last IP to hit the server before that
started.

> un 24 23:20:22 cybershamanix kernel: auditIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.105.235.30
> DST=64.108.120.44 LEN=1492 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=239 ID=27715 DF PROTO=ICMP TYP
> E=8 CODE=0 ID=39612 SEQ=57072
> Jun 24 23:27:12 cybershamanix xinetd[1300]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: c
> an't verify hostname: gethostbyname(localhost.localdomain) failed
> Jun 24 23:27:43 cybershamanix last message repeated 139 times
> Jun 24 23:28:14 cybershamanix last message repeated 68 times
> Jun 24 23:29:26 cybershamanix last message repeated 3 times
> Jun 24 23:35:44 cybershamanix xinetd[1300]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: c
> an't verify hostname: gethostbyname(localhost.localdomain) failed
> Jun 24 23:36:43 cybershamanix last message repeated 268 times
> Jun 24 23:36:43 cybershamanix kernel: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached
> Jun 24 23:46:51 cybershamanix xinetd[1300]: Exiting...
>
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Harmon Seaver, MLIS
CyberShamanix
Work 920-203-9633   hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Home 920-233-5820 hseaver at ameritech.net