You suspect that the Web Server, which is located on your network and hosts multiple Internet facing Websites. The Web Server runs on Windows Server 2008. After receiving complaints from the users of Webserver occasionally being unavailable, you investigate and find that it is getting flooded with many ping requests. What should you do to immediately handle this situation?

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12 August, 15:55

You suspect that the Web Server, which is located on your network and hosts multiple Internet facing Websites. The Web Server runs on Windows Server 2008. After receiving complaints from the users of Webserver occasionally being unavailable, you investigate and find that it is getting flooded with many ping requests. What should you do to immediately handle this situation?

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Shyla Pennington · Answer 1

Block all incoming ICMP requests.

Explanation:

Since the web server is hosts a lot of internet facing websites. On investigation it was find out that the web server is getting flooded with a lot of ping requests hence it becomes unavailable occasionally. So to tackle this problem we should block all of the incoming ICMP requests.