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What counter? Pinging?

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The counter on their site that says ICMP received. On the main website.

http://floppy.museum/status.htm

Does not reflect ICMP updates after refresh.

The site's IP is announced by https://www.blix.com/. It's conceivable that an IBM 5170 is sitting on its side in a colo rack, with a transceiver bridging its Ethernet card directly to the ISP's network connection.

But it seems more likely traffic is being forwarded or even rewritten at Layer 4. I don't think running something like HAProxy in non-caching mode would invalidate the website's claims. Even an IP forwarding solution (eg a GRE tunnel) might have http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ issues.

If http://floppy.museum/files/httpd.bat is up-to-date then the DOS HTTPD is listening on port 82, so there's a middlebox doing something.

There's a much larger than zero possibility something (network gear) North of this thing is black-holing ICMP echo and/or your ISP is dropping the responses.

You know… that title on top is clickable.

what title on top. The address for stats is:

http://floppy.museum/status.htm

am I missing something here, a counter is a counter. Unless the site is cached with a CDN which is... a CDN in front of an sx286 PC.

Could do the same thing with a VIC20, or an AM crystal radio for that matter.

The other counters on the page are updating after each refresh. I think only the ICMP counter is broken. The IP address points to a Norway provider. I do not think there is a CDN, elsewise the counters would be frozen.

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