icmp flooding, distributed ddos?

[jullrich at euclidian.com (Johannes Ullrich)]

> The ICMP blocking may well be in response  to  a  flood  of
> ICMP packets.

hm. blocking all ICMP traffic is bad. This will break a lot
of things. I know that some ISPs block 92 Byte long ICMP
to keep the worm traffic down. But in particular if they start
blocking ICMP error messages (source quench, port unreachable...), 
a lot of things may break.


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