> > No response from $ ping www.debianHELP.org. > > > > Anyone knows what happens to this good website? > It appears to be (a bit) up to me, though they seem to have some > diffuculties. > > Ping doesn't work for all sites. Some sites block icmp (like > microsoft.com for example :) > > debianhelp.org appears to reply to icmp replies bnow btw.
Most corporate firewalls are set to block ICMP mainly in case they use M$ software which has long history of crashing after receiving wrong icmp packets. No wonder microsoft.com keeps up to this too :) Jirka -- Jiri Klouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~jk
