From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 10 14:16:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13583 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:16:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from techpower.net (hometeam@techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13506 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA03990; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:15:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:15:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jt To: Alex Nash cc: Mike D Tancsa , mike@sentex.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw unreach statement help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Someone wrote: It's interesting to note that none of the umpteen addresses of www.microsoft.com respond to pings either. I could have sworn that about a month or so ago they replied to pings with an ICMP unreachable message (communication prohibited by filter). Perhaps this was done to conserve bandwidth? Or perhaps their filter wasn't very smart and ended up in a loop as described above. there still filtering just takes a sec to respond hometeam@techpower.net --We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd-- -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 owEBqwBU/4kAlQMFADRCxNWhsddKSTR+6QEBelED/jzeC3btZfqSdIfrNoCgwUJJ iNQ33UQoMyJ2ygkfl72xP5J79yml/F4P73GnNaDVbaMOmOG2NNAi5ElE73wRh54U 17kH+n5XnYeqekV8T2TG2Q6ex3UotXPyZ1vvrCrSxapOz6a4hh0GQeA55rcwLy2W ROHwxfvaVsrX5iVOkRoerBFiC21lc3NhZ2UudHh0AAAAAA== =jCvF -----END PGP MESSAGE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message