ICMP is indeed filtered. A port scan shows open ports tho, so the host is
online.

Saint K.

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Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Gary Stanley
Verzonden: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:06 AM
Aan: [email protected]; [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: [hlds_linux] @alfred: no reply from master server
68.142.88.34]

At 04:37 AM 1/21/2008, Timo Hilbertz wrote:
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>hi alfred,
>
>could you please confirm or deny that the IP 68.142.88.34 is down?
>i tried with ICMP pings from severel german backbones but i always failed.
>maybe ICMP is simply blocked and the reason why our game servers (and
>others, see previous postings) are not able to connect is based on
>another problem.
>but before i do further investigation i'd like to have a reliable answer
>from valve.
>
>thanks for you help.
>
>regards,
>timo

They filter ICMP. Filtering ICMP unconditionally breaks things like
PMTU discovery.


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