Download sources from servers that don't respond to ping

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Jann Röšder wrote:
> I noticed, that at the moment servers which do not respond to Pings  
> are
> not considered as sources. This sounds reasonable, but unfortunately
> there are some servers out there that work just fine even though  
> they do
> not respond to Ping messages. So I request that sources with a ping
> value of 10000 are still considered.

Servers which block all ICMP are broken (usually when ICMP echo is  
blocked, all ICMP is blocked) as they break path mtu discovery.

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