something instead of ping.

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake Marc Powell (mpowell at ena.com) [16/10/03 12:47]:
> Just a heads up, there have been numerous reports of this breaking other
> services (ssh, ftp to Win2K servers, pop/IMAP) intermittently. We
> experienced problems with some customers connecting to our IMAP servers
> once we started doing this, we had no choice but to roll-back the change
> and the problems went away. Weird. YMMV.

Yes, I know.  Maybe you can confirm this -- does blocking the 92-byte ping
cause more problems than a blanket ICMP block?

I'm suspicious of the fact that this always seems to involve Windows
machines as well -- be they the server or the client.


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