Subject: Re: SOLVED! The cause of puzzling TCP (eg. WHOIS) connection failures with some InterNIC.net hosts
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/22/1998 15:53:58
Marc Slemko writes:
> - saying that PMTU-D is broken by design because you can setup filters
> that results in TCP connections not working is silly.  You can also setup
> filters to deny all SYN packets that prevent TCP connections from working;
> does that mean TCP connection establishment is broken by design?

Bravo.

Perry