Why do companies block 'ping'?
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Mar 15, 202627569 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I can browse all the websites in my company work station, but not open the command prompt and ping any website. This has happened in 2 of my previous companies too. Do companies block ping?Why do companies do that ?
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It has to do with the issues caused by it in the past ("Ping of death"), so some sites block it at the firewall level to avoid them: On the Internet, ping of death is a denial of service (DoS) attack caused by an attacker deliberately sending an IP …
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