Re: netcraft && uptime guesses

[dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>]

hi Tamas,
               I am reading into it mostly;-)) since the system i tested against
i
set to deny ICMP requests except unless explicit and the error it gives on
their end is Time out just like what happens when one pings something that
is [N]ot [T]here well the string return seens to reflect this.. in any event
well
netcraft fails when i try the uptime ..  Then it appears that ICMP is in the
picture
and well they depend on this to first see if it is up IMHO. then it fails
because
well not reply to get the loop going.. Best Regards - dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com
Tamas TEVESZ wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, dreamwvr wrote:
>
>  >        They are using ICMP echo request .. disable it in /etc/ipf.rules
>
> ? ;0
>
> how can it be done ? ( i mean uptime guessing through icmp, of course,
> not ipfilter basics:)
>
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