Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: TCP ?? | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:06:47 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> Seems the altavista firewall is misconfigured then. Linux and Digital Unix > play fine but the average "professional firewall consultant" doesn't know > how to configure firewalls so they tend to block all ICMP - which is an > absolute no-no. I wouldnt be suprised if that is the problem. Can you
When first reading the report I thought that too, but however altavista does respond to ping and traceroute. To allow that while denying PMTU probes would be a royal screw up (not that such don't happen...)
olaf
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