[NTLUG:Discuss] (no subject)

[Steve Baker]

cbbrowne at godel.brownes.org wrote:
> 
> 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...

Pure speculation - but I wonder if it's something unique to WinNT-based
web servers?

Disabling ping is a pretty anti-social thing to do.

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