Internet background noise
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internet-background-noise-206-8524404
title:
Internet background noise
text:
Internet background noise consists of data packets on the Internet which are addressed to IP addresses or ports where there is no network device set up to receive them. Network telescopes observe the Internet background radiation. These packets often contain unsolicited commercial or network control messages, backscatters, port scans, and worm activities. Smaller devices such as DSL modems may have a hard-coded IP address to look up the correct time using the Network Time Protocol. If, for some
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Network traffic lacking a routable destination
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_background_noise
date created:
2005-03-01T22:33:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:21:26Z
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