Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Sorry if I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you said that
they couldn't have their cake and eat it too, as in protect against Ping
of death, AND do PMTUD.

As for those flames, well, that was a long time ago, in a valley not too
far from here ;-).

Can we have the 'net before the endless September back?



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch () muada com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:40 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?
>
> On 7 mei 2008, at 23:20, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
>
> > I was responding to his post that blocking or disabling 
> PMTUD was the 
> > way to avoid the ping of death, which is False, nothing 
> more, nothing 
> > less.
>
> I never said that disabling PMTUD will get rid of the ping of 
> death, what I said was that if your system is susceptible to 
> a ping of death you may be tempted to filter ICMP but if you 
> do that then you need to disable PMTUD because PMTUD + ICMP 
> filtering = breakage.
>
> > As far as who Iljitsch is, everyone misspeaks from time to 
> time. Even 
> > those of us who have been at this for nearly 3 decades.
>
> After making the jump to academia I often feel a bit long in 
> the tooth between all these students. But considering that 
> (apparently) some people have been posting flames on NANOG 
> for 30 years makes me feel young in comparison.  :-)

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