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Re: block pings



on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:24:25PM -0700, Nick spewed forth on stone tablets:
> how do you stop linux from replying to pings like 
> microsoft does.  you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com

This is probably occurring because microsoft's servers are behind a
firewall blocking ICMP pings.  If you note /.'s servers also do not
ping either.

Dan

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