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1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2014 09:18:01 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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   Why is important for !security to block #ping? Because #dogma? http://www.lacunae.org/ping-why-do-i-need-to-block-ping
   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2014 11:06:26 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      I allow the network facing router to respond to ping, but the pings dont pass through the firewall. Other services (web, mail, XMPP) are already responding to requests, so it's not like the IP address is undiscoverable. Ping provides a valuable diagnostic tool.
      1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2014 14:53:37 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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         Is there a rationale for having a firewall block nodes inside from *pinging out*?
         1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2014 12:30:30 EDT Bob Jonkman

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            #Best_Practices would say "Block everything, allow only what's necessary" implying that outbound ping should be blocked. In practice, I allow outbound ping. Philosophically, I'm in favour of an #OpenWeb, so I'm inclined to allow outbound everyt…
            1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2014 16:31:53 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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               "Not preaching what you practice" sounds preferable to "not practicing what you preach", if only because "not preaching" sounds good. I wish more people would practice that ☺
   2. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2014 16:30:46 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      "Not preaching what you practice" sounds preferable to "not practicing what you preach", if only because "not preaching" sounds good. I wish more people would practice that ☺