On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:02, Jon D. wrote: > On the same line as prohibiting portscan: I just > recently moved back on campus and found that I can't > ping or traceroute to anywhere off-campus. I tried > this on multiple computers on campus to multiple > on-campus and off-campus hosts. Here's my traceroutes > to www.ldsoss.org and www.lds.org (and yes, it was > online at the time, according my cache-cleaned > browser). Is this a new thing? Any workarounds? > > I guess icmp packets are an honor code violation > anymore.
It appears that OIT has been having problems with the icmp and the recent virus(es) (or so they claim). ICMP on/off campus has been disabled until things get cleared up.[1] [1]http://oit.byu.edu/index.cfm?child_id=82&message_id=554 -Hyrum -- Need an Open Source Genealogy tool? Help write one! http://openancestry.sourceforge.net/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
