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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by calinet6 on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:07PM (#5185370)
Coolest thing I've seen all day.

I'd be really curious to know how long the full scan took. Couldn't find the info in the article.

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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by xymostech on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:22PM (#5185438)
The article says "After 10 hours", so I'm assuming that's how long it took (that took me a while to find, also). Actually pretty amazing that they were able to do it so quickly.
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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by OGinparadise on Friday February 08, 2013 @12:17AM (#5186422)
"After 10 hours" we reached the end of the internet. :)

Shocked at how fast they were able to ping all the IPs

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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by dsl on Friday February 08, 2013 @12:35AM (#5186479)
To ping the entire internet in 10 hours you would generate approximately 60 Mbps of ICMP traffic.

The site is down for me, but I assume they used multiple machines to do this. I SYN scanned about 70% of the globally routed prefixes last month and it took a little over 4 days from a single box (but I was doing some detailed packet captures that hurt disk IO).

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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by nereidsol on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:26AM (#5187983)
It took only 10 hours on a single server, more info here: http://www.securityartwork.es/2013/01/21/how-much-does-it-ta...
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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by decad on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:23PM (#5185443)
"After 10 hours, we got the following results: Ping overall results answered: 284,401,158 IP addresses responded to the ping, i.e. 7% of systems."

Looks like 10 hours unless I'm mistaken (it is pretty late here)

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