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Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Wed Sep 22 18:10:43 BST 2021

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 04:39:10PM +0100, Oliver Simmons <oliversimmo at gmail.com> wrote a message of 12 lines which said:

One currently possible way to detect the "severity" of the issue is
via ping-ing the server.

Many machines/networks don't reply to or block the messages used byping so it is not realistic.

Ping being ICMP control messages 0 & 8

With IPv4 only.