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 -- Spinfire Magenta In Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hacker http://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A
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