Hi Anthony,
At 23:04 04-04-2017, Anthony Salomon wrote:
>If this can help, this is the output of a ping result from a French IP :
Thanks.
>Would be happy to hear about any technical reason why it was blocked
>when you did the test.
In the 1990s there was a software vulnerability. The vulnerability
affected several Operating Systems and the "attack" was known as the
Ping of Death. One of the measures which people resorted to was to
block ICMP. It has been a long time since that type of "attack" is
no longer possible. However, some junior system administrators still
block ICMP as they don't know whether there is a technical reason or not.
The Linux System Administrator of LSL Digital already explained why I
saw "pings" being blocked.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Wed Apr 05 2017 - 07:59:08 PST