On Friday 29 August 2003 11:33, Pascal Gloor wrote:

> > In case if it is an emergency  they should inform the customer and
> > set a temp rule which could be remove by ISP request.
>
> what is an emergency? I dont have any dDoS running on my link.
> Additionally they filtered all their customers, so it cant be taken as
> an emergency rule, but as an administrative decision.

An emergency for GBLX, but this case is not an emergency to me either. 

> 2nd additionally,
> the filtered icmp packets ARE the ones used by tracert.exe, not that  
>use this "unconfigurable" tool, but my customers do and now they can 
> think "damn, lan.ch fucked their routing..." :-/ 

For all non Windows Sysadmins:
hping --icmp --winid --data 64 --traceroute www.gblx.net

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* Erich Hohermuth IP Engineer - SolNet (AS 9044) PGPKEY-46A08FCB *

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