[PLUG] Comcast problems?

[Dan Young]

Paul Johnson said:
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> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:04:49PM -0700, Kyle Hayes wrote:
>> Also, traceroutes seem to be permanently disabled.  I can no
>> longer traceroute  to any site out of Comcast.  About five hops
>> into Comcast's network,  traceroute packets drop off the face of
>> the earth.  Ping does work.
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> Yeah, they seem to be doing something recently that breaks ICMP.

You'd think that would be the other ways around, i.e. traceroute works
(UDP by default) but not ping (ICMP) given a response to MS Blaster,
et al?

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District