On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:28:46PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > >Patrick R. Wade wrote: > >> 4. EFN nameservers do not respond to ICMP, so pinging them will not tell >> you that they are up. > >Why not? Ping is a useful and widely known tool, so why break it? >
I believe that the concern was that ping is also a useful and widely known DoS tool, and that since there is only one service that box provides, it is possible to test the box by testing the service... -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
