[mythtv-users] Ananova blocking IPs?

[mediaserver]

There are two variants on the "Ping of Death" denial of service attack that
rely upon ICMP (Ping and TraceRoute) being available on a given host.  If
you are have an Internet-facing corporate presence you are well advised to
disable ICMP on critical infrastructure components to prevent them from
having all of their available sessions co-opted and thus making the server
(or device) unavailable.

My primary work is in the Load and Performance testing field, working
primarily with tools from Mercury Interactive (LoadRunner) and NetIQ/Ixia
(Chariot).   It is very common to run up against servers running mission
critical apps that have ICMP disabled and thus no "Ping" or traceroute
responses.

Me and the rest of the "...bubblehead..." guild thank you for your kind
support ;)

James Pulley, iTest Solutions
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Ray Olszewski
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:32 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Ananova blocking IPs?

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1. The FQN does not respond to pings, from either a Linux -OR- a Win2K
host. It may just not answer pings, period; some sites are like that, after
all (I've seen it justified on security grounds, but this seems to just be
from the sort of bubbleheads who think they can justify any idiocy by
waving the security flag). So don't infer anything just yet from your
inability to ping the FQN from the Myth host.
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