At 9:02 PM -0500 12/23/97, Randall Pigott wrote:
Look, gang, the reason to do a public ping is that in the last analysis, GE only needs public IP addresses for those infrastructure machines that need
Some people block ICMP, but have a lot of other direct internet access. This sort of test only gives one an initial set of questions to ask. It does not answer those questions.
Don't kill the investigator yet.
And of course, this is a moot issue when one is paying for address space.
--Dean
Careful- if you start saying "you can have whatever you pay for", Microsoft may hear you........:)
Hmm. Perhaps we could make a killing by cornering the IP Address market... I wonder how long before IP Addresses are traded on the commodities market... --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++