[63191] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICMP Blocking Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Sep 29 16:17:41 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: ekgermann@cctec.com
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"CA Windon" <lnxguru@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:56:04 EDT."
<NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHMEPLMIAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:10:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHMEPLMIAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>, "Eric Germann" w
rites:
>
>winders does use udp instead of icmp in their tracert program, IIRC (or at
>least they used to). At the risk of getting my head blown off, could we say
>that was foresight :)
>
No, they use icmp. Or at least that's what the XP box sitting next to
me does...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb