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Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting



* Quoting Phillip Hofmeister (plhofmei@zionlth.org):
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 at 06:11:34PM -0500, Rolf Kutz wrote:
> > 
> > You would get a ICMP host-unreachable from the
> > last router in that case. 
> 
> I don't believe this is always the case.

True.

> It may be the RFC specification that an ICMP host-unreachable be sent,
> but in practice this is no where near always the case.

Worse things happen. One of the largest Mailproviders 
in Germany (gmx.de) blocks ICMP.

- Rolf



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