[14352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whoa; the 3 network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue Dec 23 21:55:54 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971223210235.00b06b50@randall.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:26:59 -0500
To: Randall Pigott <nanog@pigott.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: Randall Pigott <nanog@pigott.net>
At 9:02 PM -0500 12/23/97, Randall Pigott wrote:
>Look, gang, the reason to do a public ping is that in the last analysis, GE
>only needs public IP addresses for those infrastructure machines that need
Some people block ICMP, but have a lot of other direct internet access.
This sort of test only gives one an initial set of questions to ask. It
does not answer those questions.
Don't kill the investigator yet.
And of course, this is a moot issue when one is paying for address space.
--Dean
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