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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Margaret Wilson wrote:

> I have been able to ping 35.8.2.3 all day, getting anywhere from between 0
> and 100% packet loss.  It wasn't till 5:03 this evening that 35.8.2.3
> started generating 100% packet loss continuously.  Maybe they're blocking
> ICMP now, but they weren't earlier today....
>
> Regards,
>
> Margaret
> [...]

Maybe they were experimenting with lifting the block (which may explain
some of the on-campus sluggishness today) and decided to put it back on;
http://help.msu.edu/status/ still says off-campus ICMP packets are being
blocked.

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