[32906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pinging routers for network status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Dec 18 03:39:49 2000
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:35:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: "John M . Brown" <jmbrown@ihighway.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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> Customers are constantly pinging our edge router, ns, or mail server.
> Recently we had a flood of "your network is down" calls because customers
> where pinging a well known site we host.
> I am seeing the "net" becoming more asymetric, and those ICMP
> ECHO / ECHO-REPLY packets aren't taking nearly the same path
> as they used to.
You mean you're policy-routing ICMP and traceroute to a central reliable
host? :-)
-Bill
