What are these folks up to? - 'net snoopers

Factual Questions
1

About 6 weeks ago I started using firewall software, and was a little surprised at the number of visitors I have.

Here’s who has snooped me today:

On 7/2/00:

Registrant:EXCALIBUR Group, A Time Warner Company (RR6-DOM)
13241 Woodland Park Rd Herndon, VA 20171 US Domain Name: RR.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
DNS1.RR.COM 24.30.200.3
DNS2.RR.COM 24.30.201.3 NS1.MEDIAONE.NET 24.128.1.80

And another on 7/2/00:

ONDA.COM.BR
Onda Provedor Serviços S/A
Av. Higienópolis, 2554, P.Guanabara
86050-000 - Londrina - PR
Servidores DNS
VERDE.ONDA.COM.BR 200.195.192.10
22 Abr 2000 -> Autoridade sobre o domínio
Ultima resposta com autoridade: 22 Abr 2000
NEWS.ONDA.COM.BR 200.203.211.37
TRIGO.SERCOMTEL.COM.BR OJA.SERCOMTEL.COM.BR criado em 06 Jan 1999 ticket #135509
ultima alteração em 30 Mar 2000
status -> publicado

Another on 7/2/00:

Registrant:Sprint Business Operations (DIALSPRINT-DOM)
12490 Sunrise Valley Dr. Reston, VA 22090 US
Domain Name: DIALSPRINT.NET
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DIALSPRINT.NET 206.134.151.45
NS2.DIALSPRINT.NET 206.134.79.44 NS3.DIALSPRINT.NET 205.149.192.145

What are these folks up to when they drop by?

2

See my thread posted last night on this if you haven’t already. These last people you listed have been hitting me hard as well - more than a dozen times over the last couple days. I have a net abuse letter to send to them soon, as Horseloverfat suggested to me.

3

That what happens when your start using a firewall: you get a lot of those unauthorized pings and such. After a few days, they will subside, with the snooper giving up, I guess. Be especially aware about the ones you get from Reston, Virginia, that is CIA Central.