> Can users of Hotwire services in Delhi confirm this? I have been having difficulty
> monitoring my connectivity for the past few days(which I do using simple ICMP pings),
>  and contacted my Hotwire distributor about it. He informed me that due to
> the recent spate of viruses all over net, the Hotwire folks have placed
> a firewall before all their customers which (I hope among other things)
> blocks all incoming and outgoing ICMP pings!!!

In an unrelated (and not very helpful) note, Reliance India Mobile's
RConnect service has blocked ping and traceroute since yesterday. I
guess they've blocked all (most?) ICMP packets. All our network probes
of various kinds are now failing. And they call it "security".

Shuvam


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