ICMP Ping echo-request

Thing · January 31, 2003, 12:21 PM

Grok and I had a brief discussion about PING. I have searched deep into my soul and feel that the following line expresses my true feelings about people pinging me.

ipchains -A INPUT -p -icmp -m -icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP

Edit: oops

Yoni · January 31, 2003, 12:55 PM

Great! Just invoke ipchains with that command line and it is complete!

Grok · January 31, 2003, 10:15 PM

Ping should not be enabled by default on NICs and routers. In fact, ISPs should refuse service to anyone responding to PING unless they have prior, arranged, permission(which should be granted on request for a limited time). It's just one more tool out there for open abuse.

iago · February 01, 2003, 08:51 AM

Ping has it's place :'-(

Grok · February 01, 2003, 11:25 AM

Ridiculous. With thinking like that, next you'll be saying that Java has it's place.

iago · February 01, 2003, 12:50 PM

Actually, I already did

QuoteOf course not. Get a real language ^^

Actually, Java has it's place in the world, and it's probably better than, say, VB for programming bots, but what do I know? :-)

Thing · February 01, 2003, 01:33 PM

Hmmm ... Java has one good use and that is to bring caffeine into the human body.

Ping has one good use also, and that is for systems adminsitrators to verify that their machines are responding. Nobody else has good reason to ping a box. If all the network administrators configured their edge routers to filter these packets, there would be a lot less bullshit traffic on the Internet.

Adron · February 03, 2003, 12:03 PM

Hmm, I like pings. I see no reason it should be any more abusable than other available protocols.

Banana fanna fo fanna · February 03, 2003, 01:32 PM

Grok you loser. Name one time a ping flood has succeeded.

Name one thing .NET beats Java for (besides UI

).

Arta · April 28, 2003, 12:55 PM

GRC.com was knocked off the net by an ICMP flood, and smurf attacks used to be quite popular and effective AFAIK, although that was before my time.

Yoni · April 28, 2003, 01:49 PM

Quote from: St0rm.iD on February 03, 2003, 01:32 PMName one thing .NET beats Java for (besides UI ).

Without taking any sides (I dislike both .NET and Java), the above argument is flawed in that you answer yourself (against your own argument). The correct syntax is:

Code Select

Name two things .NET beats Java at.

Grok · April 28, 2003, 02:46 PM

Quote from: St0rm.iD on February 03, 2003, 01:32 PM
Grok you loser. Name one time a ping flood has succeeded.

Name one thing .NET beats Java for (besides UI ).

Multilanguage support.

Banana fanna fo fanna · April 28, 2003, 03:22 PM

Java has international support.....

Skywing · April 28, 2003, 03:27 PM

Quote from: St0rm.iD on April 28, 2003, 03:22 PM
Java has international support.....

Simply supporting something and doing it well are entirely different things.

Banana fanna fo fanna · April 28, 2003, 03:33 PM

And does it well.

I've worked on limewire international versions and it works just dandy.