Download sources from servers that don't respond to ping

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Sat Oct 3 14:28:39 PDT 2009


What is the hostname of one of these servers for example?
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On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Jann Röšder wrote:

> 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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