[43869] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Fri Oct 26 17:03:10 2001
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:54:47 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Patrick W. Gilmore
> Sent: October 26, 2001 4:38 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)
>=20
>=20
> Yes, I think we all came to the same conclusion. From now on, =
everyone=20
> should ping www.microsoft.com to test connectivity. :)
They outsmarted us already in Redmond, sadly.
vivienm@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 :)=20
Vivien
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/
