Re: MTU size

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:30 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Further, sometimes this message is blocked, by accident, by policy, by
> security.  When that happens, the server or the client don't know that
> their original packet didn't get through, and so the connection
> freezes.

Not "by security", but by "mistaken thoughts about security". Sites
which block these ICMP messages are "breaking the Internet". Google
for "ICMP MTU overzealous".

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