The Internet is seething with many spurious and oddly formed packets, and their origin and purpose remain a mystery.
Since mid-May, security researchers and network administrators have tried to track down the source of odd traffic that they have been seeing on their networks. The data frequently attempted to connect to nonexistent servers or to services not offered by existing servers. The only common thread seemed to be that the data packet had a window size of 55,808 bytes and, in many cases, came from a nonexistent Internet address.
(Thanks, Luis!)
