On 10/13/13 5:10 PM, Brian Kantor wrote:

The background noise is one of the reasons why amprgw only lets traffic through for hosts registered in the AMPR.ORG DNS. People with directly-connected subnets will have to deal with it on their own; background noise is one of the facts of Internet life.

• Brian

Really everyone should run a firewall or at least some ACL's regardless. Leaving yourself open to 44/8 is not a good idea.

However if your OS is well written and secure there is not any risk to the background noise hurting it. If it's a win2k box that's not been patched, god help you :)