Re: [tlug] Ping vs www server

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:36:23 -0700, "SL Baur" <steve@example.com> wrote:

> It used to be that that was fairly stupid practice as it hamstrung the
> higher level protocols

It strikes me that everyone here is talking about turning off ICMP entirely.

What about those who simply deactivate echo requests and echos, leaving all
the other stuff like host unreachable etc.? I have to agree with Josh that
doing so is a good tradeoff.

-- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

unix soit qui mal y pense

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