Barrie Bremner wrote:
This is from a Zen *DSL account:"Chris" == Chris J <cej [at] nightwolf.org.uk> writes:
>> My apologies, forgot to turn html off,
>> >> what i ,meant to say was that demon and bt block all icmp
>> traffic on there= network, and as such ping wont work, you need
>> to use the tracepath command= from within the sbin directory,
>> as this uses udp
>>
Chris> *blink*
Chris> They do?? They didn't used to (at least, 12 months ago they
Chris> didn't, last time I had any dealings with Demon at least;
Chris> BT I've never used, but their bankbone's allow ICMP though
Chris> from what I've seen).
Chris> Seems inherently stupid to me. Anyone want to hazrd why, as
Chris> I can't think of any sane reason...
I'll add an "eh?" to that too.
My broadband provider (http://www.country-broadband.co.uk/) have a
leased line to Demon and pings work just fine.
Of course, this might be different to *DSL setups, but blocking ping
seems pretty stupid.