Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)

Fri Oct 26 20:54:47 UTC 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Patrick W. Gilmore
> Sent: October 26, 2001 4:38 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)
> 
> 
> Yes, I think we all came to the same conclusion.  From now on, everyone 
> should ping www.microsoft.com to test connectivity. :)

They outsmarted us already in Redmond, sadly.
vivienm at quartz:~$ ping -s www.microsoft.com
PING www.microsoft.com: 56 data bytes
^C
----www.microsoft.com PING Statistics----
19 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

There are a few other organizations that fit your criteria, though, methinks... some of whom allow ICMP just fine and provide things that are slightly more vital than microsoft.com :) 

Vivien
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