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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:17:49 +0100 |
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"Oliver Schad" <o.schad@×××.de> Add to Address Book wrote: |
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> Probably you think ICMP is dangerous too. There are a lot of brain dead |
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> admins who blocks ICMP packets and they wonder why connections to some |
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> websites are broken or if they administrate the packet filter before a |
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> webserver they wonder why some user grouches they wouldn't get a |
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> connection to the web server. |
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thats one reason i don't block it, some services and things use it to look for hosts that are up, what i wish i could do is some type of limit where it would only send replies to them at a certain rate, just so that a ping -f on 12 machines to my machine wouldn't cause a huge bandwidth surge from my machine. |
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Version: 3.1 |
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GCS/CM/E/M/S/O d--(-) s:+>:- |
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a--->-->->>+>++>+++$ C+++>++++$ UL++++>++++$ |
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P+++>++++$ L++++>++++$ !E-? W++>++$>+++$ |
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N++>* !o? !K? w--->---$ O-- M-@ !V--? PS+++(++(+((-)))) |
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PE Y+(++)@ PGP+++(++) t+++>+++$ 5--(-)@ X++@>+++@ |
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R+(++)@ tv+++@>++@ b+>++ DI++++ D+++@ G+++>++++ |
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e>+$>++$>+++$>++++$>+++++$ h+>++ r*(--(++))@ !y+>-->->+++@ |
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