[57240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: internet.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Mon Mar 31 23:14:46 2003
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:14:22 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
> 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.
>
>
> Eddy
Ahh, thanks Eddy.
When the only tool you have is a hammer...<g>
I haven't received anything from the isp-lists for a couple of days, and couldn't reach isp-planet.com's nameserver, so went looking
with what I had.
Time to get *nix loaded on this new laptop I suppose...what's your favorite traceroute prog.?
--Michael
