Re: [SLUG] Pings etc.

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 11:32:07 EST


On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:

> >From any machine on the network (and the firewall), I can ping
> www.suncoastlug.org. I cannot, however, ping www.quillandmouse.com. Now,
> I can traceroute or traceroute -I it. I can access the website(s). I can
> run host against them both.

I drop ICMP at the borders of some ISP's I admin for non-local
non-next-hop traffic, due to Smurf attacks ... This would
cause that symptom.

-- Russ



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