Are ICMP packets important?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Hi Janina,

That was an interesting report. I find no surprises in it though.
I have deliberately opened 113, and the others are open to
support IRC CTCP protocols. They are open with no services
running on them.

On my ping failure, please look at this (everybody) and tell me
what you see:

PING yahoo.com (66.218.71.198) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 10.13.7.254 icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered

- --- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
73 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss,
time 72093ms

The second line shows an IP address that appears to be filtering
out my ICMP packet, but the identity of that IP address is
unknown to me and is not revealed by the 'host' command.

I think I discovered the lock; now if I could only find the key!

Chuck


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