I let it stay on inside the firewall, I let the firewall block outside because there are still ping of death hack attacks where people up the byte size on the ping to try and bring down your network by overloading the bandwidth using ping. If its turned off you can always use tracert to see if you can hop to the firewall then you know if your connected or not.
-----Original Message----- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 12:27 PM To: cf-community Subject: Networking question My networking admin has ping turned off on our firewall. He did it years ago to cut down on script-kiddie activity. Is this still a valid concern? I'm curious since it makes connectivity issues a little harder to diagnose without it turned on. zB -- Musha rain dum a doo, dum a da Wack fall the daddy-o, Wack fall the daddy-o There's whiskey in the jar, oh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275584 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
