Question

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?

Answer 1

Answer:

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.