Re: Turn off PING server on AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Turn off PING server on AS/400
From: oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:23:43 +0200
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Hi,

>I think there's some bizarre way to perform a DOS attack by using pings.
>That's why some people block it.  But that could be a big WAG on my part.

Once upon a time, there was a ping-of-death for Win95, I think.

Otherwise, blocking ICMP is just a stupid way of increasing your line
traffic,
as the ping sender will resend because of possible packet loss.

Regards,

Oliver

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