On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Right now, we are blocking pings and traceroutes to our website. >>> But, in order for our members to test the connection when they are experiencing slow browsing, we are thinking about unblocking them... >>> Are there still any security issues (flooding, etc...) in enabling them or is that an old problem fixed a long time ago? <snip> > We generally allow ping at the sites we support, but don't rely > on pings to test for systems being alive. > > We test system status by doing an xmlrpc call to their web server > which should return some useful information in addition to making > sure that the system is actually responding to something useful > (NICs may return pings even if the underlying system is hung). <snip> Bill: For xmlpc to work, what do I need to install on my Desktop? Does something need to be installed on the web server also? TIA, ,Lanny