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[cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org]

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:34:42 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
David Hayes <david at hayes-family.org>  said:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 03:49:02AM -0500, Matt Moore wrote:
> > You cannot ping www.microsoft.com...they have all icmp requests  
> > disabled in their router...any attempts to ping it will always come  
> > back with a 100% packet loss... 
> 
> Hmmm. What an interesting response to the ping-of-death problem. No need
> to fix the software, just deny all access.

I've been at other sites where similar was true.  This is not unique to
MSFT, and it's not necessarily related to Ping-of-Death...

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