Download sources from servers that don't respond to ping

Jann Röšder roederja at ethz.ch
Sat Oct 3 10:04:03 PDT 2009


Yes, but I still want to download stuff from them.

Daniel J. Luke schrieb:
> 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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