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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:13:30AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> I was on @Home for about a month. Anyway, blocking ICMP is the least
> of my worries if I have to talk to support. Next time, for fun, call
> your support line and tell th
blem, but I don't run any type of globally accessible server.
>
> Don't do this! If you were on @Home, you are one of the people who
> damaged me for life by doing this. 8:oP
I was on @Home for about a month. Anyway, blocking ICMP is the least
of my worries if I have to talk to
to go fix equipment that's functioning because everybody using the
equipment in question is blocking ICMP, making it impossible to see if
anything's making it to the "last mile." Having done tech support for
@Home before, I can safely say people blocking ICMP cause support folk
more
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Personally, I'd rather make my presence on the 'net as hard to
> discover as possible. If you allow echo requests it's a simple matter
> for someone to run nmap, for example, to find out that a particular IP
> address is valid. If you block such messages
ld declining to answer pings "break the TCP/IP standard"? That's like
> > saying if you don't answer the telephone you're breaking the telephone
> > standard.
>
> It's anti-social and hamfisted. Some CPAN servers are blocking icmp now
> and that make
> saying if you don't answer the telephone you're breaking the telephone
> standard.
It's anti-social and hamfisted. Some CPAN servers are blocking icmp now
and that makes it difficult to tell if they are even up. There are more
precise and reasonable means, using netfilter (ipta
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote:
> I have several friends who are admins at a local company, and they
> seem to think it is amusing to flood ping my debian box which is on a
It's not.
> 56k dialup. Is there any way to block ICMP packets just from that
> host? I do like to be able to ping
Hi ppl,
I have several friends who are admins at a local company, and they seem to think
it is amusing to flood ping my debian box which is on a 56k dialup. Is there
any way to block ICMP packets just from that host? I do like to be able to ping
my machine from various places to check latency, e
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