[outages] COX ICMP Filter

Jeremy Chadwick outages at jdc.parodius.com
Tue Sep 2 23:04:28 EDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:11:11PM -0400, Ryan Werber wrote:
> For those of you with COX or a COX Peer, it seems as though COX has shut
> off ICMP transiting their networks.  I do not have a time yet when this
> will be fixed.

Has anyone confirmed if this affects all ICMP, or just specific ICMP
types (e.g. echoreq/echorep)?

If they're blocking all ICMP, someone at Cox needs to be fired
immediately.

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