RE: [Sheflug] Domain name registration and hosting.

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Will Newton
> Sent: 07 February 2001 00:09
> To: Sheflug
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Domain name registration and hosting.

<snip>

> csoft.net are decent hosts, but they do drop ICMP on border routers "to
> save them from script kiddy torment" although that sounds a bit lame to
> me it won't affect most people.

Dropping most ICMP at the border is fairly standard and has some good
reasoning (even if it is a pain in the arse). Dropping all inbound ICMP is a
real pain in the arse though. It's good to be able to get a response of
"host unreachable" and the maximum fragment size that is associated with TCP
sessions. Otherwise you waste a lot of band width/ effort either continually
trying to conect to something that is dead, or sending and resending TCP
data that doesn't want to fragment.

Guess what I've been spending my time reading :-) Answers on a post card to
the usual address.

Lewis

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