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Does disabling ping/traceroute affect googlebot?
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stein
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| 11:45 am on May 7, 2008 (utc 0) |
Hi, I have ordered a new server and the provider is recommending that ICMP protocol (ping / traceroute) on the server be disabled for security reasons. Could this in any way effect googlebot / my sites ranking? Thanks
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tedster
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| 3:35 am on May 8, 2008 (utc 0) |
This is a somewhat common practice and I've never heard of a problem. As far as I know, googlebot does not require either ping or tracert to be enabled on the web server and disabling them does provide a quick layer of protect against mailcious attacks.
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