[OSM-talk] openstreetmap.org completely down

[Tom Hughes]

On 11/08/09 09:15, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:02:07AM +0100, Grant Slater wrote:
>> ICMP is evil, nobody needs it anyway... *joke*
>>
>> Pings are blocked and out of our control. sorry.
>
> I hope you only refer to echo-request and not all ICMP e.g.
> destination-unreachable/fragmentation-needed ...

What part of "out of our control" did you not understand?

Yes indeed those should not be blocked, and as the firewall in question 
is run by professionals I would imagine they have it right. None the 
less, it is not something we have any control over.

Tom

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