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

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:38:36PM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> Is it just me, or are there in fact two rules in general use?
> 
> 1.  Failures in traceroute and ping mean the Intartubes are broken.

This is folks like me.  Keep the Internet running.

> 2.  For safety and security, ICMP, ping packets and traceroutes must be 
> blocked.

This is the security nazi guys.  "We don't know what it is good for, so
it must be evil, and let's block it!"

gert
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