Digital BW, The Print

> From: Anthony G. Atkielski [mailto:anthony@...]
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> It also prevents network problems from being tracked correctly, since
> your machine is effectively invisible.  If you are operating any kind of
> server, it's a good idea to answer pings.  If your machine is strictly a
> client, it's less important, but then again, it's less of a risk, too
> (since you should have fewer ports open).

A lot of large servers don't respond to pings, like www.microsoft.com. I
suspect it's because whenever someone wants to make sure their DSL isn't
dead, they ping www.microsoft.com, and they just got tired of the millions
of pings.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...