-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 08:22 am, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > I block pings on my server, and for a reason. Ping is one of the > biggest tell-alls about a network. No outside entity should ever > need to ping me, & my own machine has no real reason to ping itself, > either. > > Try this: ping first.three.octets.255 & see what happens. It will > return every machine attached to that network. I don't want the > gomers to have such an easy time finding who's attached.
Oddly enough.... ping -b xxx.xxx.xxx.255 on my network results in a reply from every linux machine. (Listing all but the first host as duplicates?) However, my children's Windows machines don't reply. They can be pinged individually, but seem to ignore a broadcast. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+SFEvn/07WoAb/SsRAijdAKC6zV/K84mApFWcUa6FKkfI0j027ACdGuv3 b4VORjV7bKrpYv9WtTkQCLY= =Ohj6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
