On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:58 PM, James Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m questioning whether the age old practice of blocking icmp echo at the
> firewall is really relevant these days?

  I've never encountered a compelling argument for broad-spectrum
blocking of ping in the first place.  I've generally found it to be
knee-jerk/cargo cult/etc sort of reaction.

-- Ben

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