From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:56:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:56:13 -0500 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:5393 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:56:03 -0500 Message-ID: <3A7584D8.E7C3CB21@ngforever.de> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:57:28 -0700 From: Thunder from the hill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD QXW03240 (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Meadors CC: Daniel Chemko , "Linux-Kernel (E-mail)" Subject: Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Meadors wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Chemko wrote: > > > Microsoft are bad for dropping ICMP because of security.. .I mean try pinging > > microsoft.com... > > It's down, ha ha, Microsoft is down! I'm joking of course. But you don't > know how many times my techs have told me that. It's either that, or > something is seeming a little strange on our network, and to trouble > shoot, they ping microsoft.com and don't get a responce. Then they call > me at home, to tell me that our T1s are down. > > I wonder how much bandwidth was used up by people pinging MS to trouble > shoot when they still allowed ICMP packets through. That's why the nmap manual tells us to use -P0 to scan www.microsoft.com. Operating system guess returned some unix... Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/