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A ping of death is a type of attack on a computer system that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. [1] In this attack, a host sends hundreds of ping requests with a packet size that is large or illegal to another host to try to take it offline or to keep it preoccupied responding with ICMP Echo replies. [2]
Sping is short for "spam ping", and is related to pings from blogs using trackbacks, called trackback spam.Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (a ping server) providing notification of newly published posts or content.