30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
8:56 a.m.
On 08/30/2018 11:45 AM, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
But what if you *don't* know someone lives at 1234 Bloor St. (and most of the residences on Bloor St. are vacant)?
That doesn't stop many burglars or squatters.
If you knock on one of the doors (ping), you may get an answer, telling you that breaking into that residence at a later time may be of some value, thus worth more effort.
There are other ways to determine if there's a computer or router there. For example traceroute will simply time out if the device doesn't respond, but there is a route to it. If there is no route to it, you get a different error message. That difference will tell you whether there's likely something at that address.