Re: Microsoft gone - AGAIN???

[Matthew Walker <mpwalker1974@yahoo.com>]

I remeber reading in the NMAP man page that it states
that microsoft.com cannot be port scanned if it is
pinged first...  Apparently if you ping the site you
are added to a temporary blocking list


--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> Jason Smith said:
> > Ping statistics for 207.46.230.229:     Packets:
> Sent = 4, Received = 0,
> > Lost = 4 (100% loss), Approximate round trip times
> in milli-seconds:
> > Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms
> 
> Don't assume that a site is down just because you
> can't ping it.  A
> lot of firewalls block ICMP to one degree or
> another.  Sometimes
> they'll at least be nice enough to do something like
> this:
> 
>  PING www.amazon.com (208.216.181.15) from
> 192.168.2.102 : 56(84) bytes of data.
>  From amazon-oc3-gw.customer.ALTER.NET
> (157.130.178.2): Packet filtered
> 
>  --- www.amazon.com ping statistics ---
>  8 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +1
> errors, 100% packet loss
> 
> That's pretty rare though.  (As an example of
> someone who just eats
> pings, try www.rsasecurity.com.)
> 
> > Quite interesting.  Try to bring their site up by
> IP address, went for a
> > couple of minutes then timed out.  I hate to
> speculate but could it be
> > another DDos attack?
> 
> A more interesting test would be "nc -vvz
> 207.46.230.229 80".  Then
> you can find out if the connection is even accepted
> or not.  You might
> also try traceroute to see where the connection
> fails.
> 
> > Is the fall of microsoft near? ;->
> 
> They'll eventually hire some firewall people with a
> clue, I'm sure.
> 
> Steve
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