cholla Posted June 15, 2005 CID Share Posted June 15, 2005 Hey all below is the awnser from my ISP on why my ISP doesn't allow ping for dial-up accounts.I would like some opinions on the awnser especially if you know if this is correct.But even if you don't .The ISP is nts-online.net This is their response to the question. Pinging is disabled on our Dial-up servers, due to the fact that carefully controlled and orchestrated pinging is the leading cause of a Denial of Service (DOS) attack, which causes our entire dial-up service to go down, taking all our dial-up customers with it. We feel like this is too much to risk, to allow those few people who actually do any pinging access to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest philp Posted June 16, 2005 CID Share Posted June 16, 2005 Possible. Does your ISP have a built-in firewall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted June 16, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 16, 2005 I'm sure they do I sometimes get a notice they have detected a virus in an email. What I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted June 16, 2005 CID Share Posted June 16, 2005 It sounds like to me that they think pinging is only used for malicious purposes. Either that or they're being over protective of their network. I don't see how 1 person pinging a site could bring it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted June 16, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 16, 2005 It sounds like to me that they think pinging is only used for malicious purposes. Either that or they're being over protective of their network. I don't see how 1 person pinging a site could bring it down. Thats my opinion too I really think they don't want complaints about latency.And why should their security be so low that their Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted June 18, 2005 CID Share Posted June 18, 2005 It's BS really. Normal ping commands have no impact on the network. You could of course set packet size to 64k and add the -t switch, but on dial-up that's even more BS than on cable/dsl, since it takes a while to send a single packet then. Dial-up just isn't made for DoS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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