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RE: [OT] BT ADSL service blocking Ping


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [OT] BT ADSL service blocking Ping
  • From: "Steve Morgan" <wormpurple@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:53:40 +0100
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

This was posted to the Clara.net announcement list last Friday:

"Due to increased load on the BT router responsible for handing off
traffic to Claranet from customers connecting to
adsl-1.uk.clara.net caused by the Nachi worm, BT have placed a
filter on ICMP echo requests ('pings') originating from ADSL
customers."

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward, David [mailto:David.Ward@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 September 2003 16:03
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] BT ADSL service blocking Ping
>
>
> Afternoon all,
>
> I thought that you may be interested in this,
>
> My wife works for a large Bank who have a lot of homeworkers.
> She has just told me that suddenly staff were unable to
> connect to the office via their work provided home ADSL
> lines. It turns out that BT had blocked 'pinging' on all of
> it's adsl connections without bothering to mention it to
> anyone. They claimed that it was to prevent viruses.
>
> Don't know if this is an isolated case or if it's country wide
>
> Dave



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