Re: [OT] debianHELP is down??
> > No response from $ ping www.debianHELP.org.
> >
> > Anyone knows what happens to this good website?
> It appears to be (a bit) up to me, though they seem to have some
> diffuculties.
>
> Ping doesn't work for all sites. Some sites block icmp (like
> microsoft.com for example :)
>
> debianhelp.org appears to reply to icmp replies bnow btw.
Most corporate firewalls are set to block ICMP mainly in case they
use M$ software which has long history of crashing after receiving
wrong icmp packets. No wonder microsoft.com keeps up to this too :)
Jirka
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Jiri Klouda <jk@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~jk
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