[plug] IInet pings

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Aaron Wooten wrote:

> When I try to ping my friends iinet address it comes up with
> host unreachable - admin prohibited filter when I do a tcpdump
> does this mean iinet has filtered out pings to its clients or have
> I done somthing wrong ?

No iiNet block incoming ICMP packets.  You _should_ be able to ping any other
iiNet host from within iiNet BUT not from outside.

nothing you can do about it.


Yours Tony.

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