Timeline for Security risk of PING?
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| Nov 15, 2016 at 10:12 | comment | added | David Scholefield | ICMP based traceroute isn't the only option though - you can use TCP based traceroute (see 'tcptraceroute' for example) or UDP (which is how Microsoft's tracert works - though this needs inbound ICMP). You can also whitelist some external ICMP targets for network testing and management. | |
| Jun 10, 2011 at 4:01 | comment | added | D.W. | good answer. However, I don't see it as much of a tradeoff: blocking ping probably brings at most a negligible security benefit. Of course, if you don't need it, go ahead and block it if you want (hey, whitelists are better than blacklists). | |
| Jun 10, 2011 at 0:20 | history | answered | Daniel Miessler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |