Re: TCP ??

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:06:47 +0100

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> Seems the altavista firewall is misconfigured then. Linux and Digital Unix
> play fine but the average "professional firewall consultant" doesn't know
> how to configure firewalls so they tend to block all ICMP - which is an
> absolute no-no. I wouldnt be suprised if that is the problem. Can you

When first reading the report I thought that too, but however
altavista does respond to ping and traceroute. To allow that while
denying PMTU probes would be a royal screw up (not that such don't
happen...)

olaf

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