[57238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: internet.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Mon Mar 31 23:01:50 2003
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:01:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304010342530.30330-100000@www.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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Patrick Greenwell
Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers
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