[Outages-discussion] Anyone aware of problems around Chicago (I believe)?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:38:36 CDT, Larry Sheldon said:

> 1.  Failures in traceroute and ping mean the Intartubes are broken.
> 2.  For safety and security, ICMP, ping packets and traceroutes must be blocked.

Both of these need at least a page at Snopes.

Though it might be interesting to see ICMP-blocking firewalls given the
Mythbusters treatment ;)
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