Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A router bug? | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:38:51 +0200 (EET) | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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> In article <fa.hmdk1av.1fl8l0l@ifi.uio.no>, > hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes: > >https://webbroker.waterhouse.com > > Can access it, but can't ping it. They blocked icmp in the firewall, > they're stupid and should just be ignored (they sure must have some > competitors you could switch to).
Ah, so they made a mistake of killing *all* ICMP packets. The mistake is that then they essentially killed also the path- MTU-discovery protocol, and they should configure their machine to always send with MTU 572, OR turn off the discovery and never send packets with DF flag set on...
HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Cute... So propably their only change is to reconfigure the FW..
> - Tor
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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