On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Vivien M. wrote:
Yes, I think we all came to the same conclusion. From now on, everyone should ping www.microsoft.com to test connectivity. :)
They outsmarted us already in Redmond, sadly. vivienm@quartz:~$ ping -s www.microsoft.com PING www.microsoft.com: 56 data bytes ^C ----www.microsoft.com PING Statistics---- 19 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
There are a few other organizations that fit your criteria, though, methinks... some of whom allow ICMP just fine and provide things that are slightly more vital than microsoft.com :)
What's below doesn't quite fit the 'vital' criteria, but... 6:08:57pm|melange@pi:/home/melange> ping -c 1 www.riaa.org PING www.riaa.org (208.225.90.120): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.225.90.120: icmp_seq=0 ttl=111 time=29.475 ms --- www.riaa.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 29.475/29.475/29.475/0.000 ms 6:09:06pm|melange@pi:/home/melange> -- Bob <melange@yip.org> | We're all wrong.