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Henry8
Henry8

Reputation: 264

Disable "ping" response in Apache

I saw that many sites don't respond at "ping call"; I read that is possible disable this function in Server Apache.

My questions are very easy: - Is it a good choose? If yes, why?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2508

Answers (1)

Dennis Ziolkowski
Dennis Ziolkowski

Reputation: 720

this has nothing to do with the apache software. The network service is answering the ICMP-Protocol, which means the PING-command. This happens on the operation systems level.

There are tutorials how to do this on Linux. (e.g. http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/40/). Also there are tutorials how to do this on Windows (e.g. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786463(v=ws.10).aspx)

There are lots of goals to disable it. To pronounce an example, there could be a lower threat of flooding.

Upvotes: 3

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