internet.com

Tue Apr 1 04:01:20 UTC 2003

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote:

>
> MP> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:21:05 -1000
> MP> From: Michael Painter
>
>
> MP> Anyone else having trouble with reaching internet.com via
> MP> genuity?
> MP>
> MP> Pinging 63.236.73.147 with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Most day-to-day apps don't really care about ping.  Attempts to
> connect to 80/TCP are successful.  Ping and traceroute give me !X
> communication prohibited by filter.
>
> ICMP echo and response are NOT critical Internet traffic.  The
> inability to send/receive is NOT an inherent indicator of network
> health.

LFT is your friend: http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/


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