wentlancYou Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to kd6cae
Re: my feelings on ICMP and port blocks Traceroute does not use ping. It sends UDP packets and receives ICMP, type 11, Time-to-live-exceeded packets as replies. So traceroute would still work fine if echo request and echo reply were disabled.
If you are away from your system, why would you care if it is up?
Your next statement answered the last one. You are running some type of server such as mail, which is most assuredly against the TOS or AUP of your ISP. And most ISPs for that matter.
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| Hold on, there, Cotton Mather. Check out L.A. Bridge's web page and you see they explicitly advertise that users can run their own mail server. |
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wentlancYou Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | So it does. And I'll go back to the original post. Inadequately implemented mail servers are a big contributor to spam. That ISP will be the one held accountable if and when their users abuse the service.
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