Actually I found the answer shortly after posting this Msg.

to quote a portion of:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/v...ella/Draft.txt

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* An incoming Ping message with TTL = 2 and Hops = 0 is a
"Crawler Ping" used to scan the network. It and SHOULD be
replied to with pongs containing information about the host
receiving the ping and all other hosts it is connected to. The
information about neighbour nodes can be provided either by
creating pongs on their behalf, or by forwarding the ping to
them, and forward the pongs returned to the crawler.
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I read this to say 'if you get a ping w/ ttl = 2 & hops = 0 then respond with pongs conataining data about servants connected to you.'

At least thats how I see it. AND, I personally don't forward these pings. they stop w/ me (if i got one,it was meant for me, I respond & drop the ping).

Or am I wrong?