Re: [Sheflug] bt host filtering

[Dave Mitchell <davem [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:41:11AM +0100, Denis Nikitin wrote:
> 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,

My experience with Pipex is that occasionally the BT end gives out
an incorrect IP address to the host, which BT routers then block. I don't
know whether a similar thing is happening in your case.

Have a look back through /var/log/messages and see whether the IP address
assigned to you has suddenly changed.

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