[KLUG Members] webmail saga continues! story at 11...

[Adam Williams]

> Mark,
> To my knowledge, you cannot ping www.hotmail.com from most places-
> It is not your network, but hotmail's that prevents u from pinging it.
> I can browse the site but when I try pinging, I get a request timed
> out. Interestingly, a tracert with the hotmail.com IP address times
> out just before it reaches the hotmail server. Does anybody else have
> any comments/explanations? I mean is there some kind of Ping Cop
> software available? I would love to hear what ol'e Bill is upto now ;)

They are simply filtering ICMP at the edge, this is standard (and good)
practice for popular sites.