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But would this allow external traffic to ping a compute instance or does this only affect traffic within the Microsoft datacenter? I assumed one would need to tell the Azure load balancer to allow that traffic through by opening an endpoint binding. Am I incorrect?
Commented Jan 27, 2012 on Enabling PING (aka ICMP) on Windows Azure roles at Christian Weyer's Blog
Enabling PING (aka ICMP) on Windows Azure roles
By default any web or worker role instance in Windows Azure has ping functionality disabled. I you want and need to ping your machines via ICMP (e.g v6) you need to enable it by opening up the respective firewall ports. Since Windows Azure SDK 1.3 this is quite easy to do with a custom startup t...
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