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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: connectivity to bkbits.net?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:13:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021128211347.D27234@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8aiMdRMXw-B@khms.westfalen.de>; from kaih@khms.westfalen.de on Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:53:00PM +0200

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:53:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >From two or three traceroutes, that problem seems to be at the SGI end. I  
> can't get to them either (nothing after the same IP as for you, at hop  
> #17, some place at Genuity), but you are practically next door.

Lesson #1 of firewalling: drop everything.
Lesson #2 of firewalling: only accept what you absolutely have to.

Try pointing a web browser at sgi.com port 80.  I _bet_ you get a
response.  The site is reachable, they just block UDP (and probably
a lot of other stuff.)

traceroute uses UDP, so if a site drops UDP (rather than blocking it)
it will appear as a black hole.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-28 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-28 16:25 connectivity to bkbits.net? Larry McVoy
2002-11-28 16:53 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-28 21:13   ` Russell King [this message]
2002-11-28 23:59     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-11-29  6:55       ` Kai Henningsen

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