I might suggest focusing your inquiry at the people possibly responsible. http://ist.mit.edu/contact
or their security group http://ist.mit.edu/security/support/team Stan On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Bill, > > The point is that with mit.edu you need only type 7 characters... > > ...and when did MIT stop answering pings? > > Is this a network setup issue on my part? Please confirm the facts for me > as a favor. This could just be my network segment. I do not know. > > Regards, > > Flint > > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, William Stearns wrote: > > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:54:52 -0400 >> From: William Stearns <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Voting a slashdot out of the firehose >> >> >> Good morning, Paul, >> >> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Paul Flint wrote: >> >> Greetings List Lurkers, >>> >>> This issue seems important to me: >>> >> >> I guess IBM and MIT failed to take your short typing needs into >> account when they tightened up their firewalls. *grin* >> >> http://slashdot.org/submission/1084305/The-ping-is-gone?art_pos=71 >>> >>> ...on the other hand, the good folks at Slashdot see things differently. >>> >> >> Just set up a server of your own and allow pings to it - the >> default. www.rackspacecloud.com provides virtual hosts that are dead >> simple to set up with full root access to a good range of Linux >> distributions, the least expensive of which is $10.95/mo. >> Add >> ip.address.of.server pi.ng >> to /etc/hosts and you can save 4 keystrokes by typing "ping pi.ng" >> :-) >> Cheers, >> - Bill >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> "Now Con would appear to have rediscovered one of the most >> reliable ways of getting a new idea into the kernel: post some code then >> wait for Ingo Molnar to rework the whole thing in a two-day hacking >> binge." >> -- Jon Corbet, http://lwn.net/Articles/230247/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> William Stearns ([email protected], tools and papers: www.stearns.org) >> Top-notch computer security training at www.sans.org , www.giac.net >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium _ > gratuitum .~. ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ > numerantur ^^-^^ >
