Hey,

The original poster was questioning whether the site was up, since it was unreachable with ICMP. By blocking all ICMP, such things as MTU path discovery are also broken - just like Hotmail.

The original poster is aware of how blocking ICMP breaks things. In fact I am the indirect recipient of a 'display time on the wall alarm clock' for people who cant turn their heads at night (due to drunkeness generally), on the basis of fixing some American site that was broken because of it. I was actually trying to query (obviously not successfully - well Joe got it!) why the routing to one of the resolved addresses for www.nbnz.co.nz is being dropped by Xtra on their border router @ APE. Secondly why the hell the traffic should go through Australia to get their in the first place. TIA ~benm --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog