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Re: Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?



On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 06:41:56PM +0000, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2023, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > Thank you - the plot thickens [...]

> It's depressingly common to find people who block icmp for 'security
> reasons'. While you can mostly get away with that in ipv4, ipv6 breaks
> catastrophically without at least some working icmp.

IPv4, too, does funny things when dropping ICMP. Path MTU discovery,
breaks, for one.

Cheers
-- 
t

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