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Re: AT&T Blocking ICMP (was RE: AT&T US Network Slowdown?)

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Tue Aug 19 12:43:35 2003

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:19:28 EDT, Paul Jasa <[email protected]>  said:
 
> A call to AT&T Worldnet confirms that AT&T Worldnet service is blocking ICMP in
> order to deal with an undefined emergency.  Nothing posted on their site, nor
> any other info is available.  If anyone has info related to this "icmp outage",
> please advise.  Thanks!

The latest DCOM worm seems to have started it's burn near ATT's San Jose presence.
They're probably being pinged to death, or trying to contain the damage...

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