[outages] www.house.gov not reachable.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:43:00 CDT, "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." said:
> > They apparently block ICMP as current best practice seems to
> require.
> 
> Ahem.  Who said "block ICMP' is BCP?  Yes, there's some ICMP thingsthat
> you probably *should* block if they're to/from untrusted sources, butin
> particular, host/net unreachable ICMP shouldn't be blocked, and thenext
> site I catch blocking 'Frag Needed' I'm gonna get on a plane and
> re-educate them with a clue-by-four regarding what they're doing to PMTUD.

The Department Of Homeland Insecurity will put you on their no-route list if
they catch you trying to sneak a clue-by-four onto a plane, Valdis.

Cheers,
-- jra
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