[Sheflug] bt host filtering

[Denis Nikitin <dnn [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,
I've recently noticed something strange is happening to my home ADSL
demon account.
No matter which host I am trying to ping I always have respond from one
of the gang of broadband bt servers similar to:

PING www.redhat.com (66.187.232.50) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From thus2-hg2.ealing.broadband.bt.net (217.32.137.201) icmp_seq=1
Packet filter
etc.
Other services are seems to be running fine(slow, but fine).
Why they would need to block  all the ICMP traffic? Or it's not the
case?
I just wondering if someone else run into the same problem and may be
can enlighten me on the subject,
Cheers,
Denis.

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