[Gllug] ping!

[Tethys]

Bernard Peek writes:

>You might find it difficult to find an alternative. Several of the major 
>UK ISPs made the same decision at pretty much the same time. They 
>blocked the traffic because of the 'welchia' worm infection back in 
>October.

Given that the rest of the net survived without having to block ICMP
echo requests, their excuse doesn't hold much water... Sounds like
a great DoS tactic, though. Write a worm that targets some valid net
traffic (say ICMP echo requests, or NTP, or SMTP or HTTP or...) and
wait for ISPs to disable that service at the firewall in the name of
"protecting their networks".

>http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=dem
>on.announce&c2coff=1&selm=mr5qnXAPIlQ%24EwTn%40demon.net.

If you're going to quote a URL, please don't add a trailing full stop.
Yes, it may make it gramatically correct, but it makes the URL invalid
for those of us wishing to cut and paste it (and for those with MUAs
that automatically turn URLs into hyperlinks).

Tet
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