A couple of years ago I wrote a web page for a number of NZ ISPs who were doing just that (including Web hosting sites from 2 Carriers), or had Web hosting companies below them doing it, I referred a number of people to it, and continued to do so for a long time. There are still a few enterprises and hosting companies I come across who do it !! I was just answering Joe's question, and in most cases, ignorance is the reason, and it still is. Arron
-----Original Message----- From: Dean Pemberton [mailto:dean(a)flatnet.gen.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2001 6:47 PM To: Arron Scott Cc: Joe Abley; Andrew Cutler; NZNOG List Subject: Re: UPDATE: Xtra broken?
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:34:07PM +1200, Arron Scott wrote:
What benefit do they get ... the most important one of all of course ... they don't need to think. If you are a server guy trying to handle a routerey thing (technical term), and can't see a need for either UDP or ICMP (well it's not TCP is it, so it can't be important), then filtering them out will make you look good to your boss !!
I don't know any NZ carriers who fall into this description. They are all pretty clued up in that regard.
Dean
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