On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 06:51:55PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
[snip]
>
> Perhaps you could speak with the owners of that server about making it
> pingable.
>
I wouldn't bother, people who block ICMP echo
usually do so for a reason and are unlikely to open it
up just because somebody else's software uses it for
timing information.
I think at best you'd annoy some people, and
may well wind up costing someone their distfile hosting
because of it.
-eric
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