Are ICMP packets important?

[Gregory Nowak]

Add outbound smtp, where they make you send all your mail through
their server, to that list.

Greg


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:56:17PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> My former ISP, Sprint Broadband, was blocking all pings as far as I
> could tell.  They also claimed security reasons.  It is really a shame
> as people go along and fuck things up.  First it is finger, then
> e-mail with all that spam and viruses and such, and now ping.  Soon it
> will be impossible to trouble-shoot your own network in relation to
> the internet in general.  My current ISP, Cox Communications doesn't
> block pings but they do block other popular ports on inbound to
> prevent personal hosting of servers but there's ways around that too.
> 

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