On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:13:52PM +0200, Vaclav Hula wrote:
> > > Ask yourself this: *Why* should ICMP be filtered? What are you gaining?
> >
> > What are you gaining by responding to them?
>
> RFC compliancy isn't enough? IMHO should be.
There's no RFC that states that you need to reply to echo requests.
Hosts are required by RFC 2700 to *implement* ICMP, but nothing is said
about what they do with it. I still believe that replying to pings is
very much the polite thing to do.
noah
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