[43866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.P. Aditya)
Fri Oct 26 16:52:39 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:50:41 -0700
From: "R.P. Aditya" <aditya@grot.org>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20011026135041.A11421@mighty.grot.org>
Reply-To: "R.P. Aditya" <aditya@grot.org>
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011026162950.04508c88@127.0.0.1>; from patrick@ianai.net on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:37:53PM -0400
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:37:53PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Perhaps we should pick something else to ping, something that is relatively
> ubiquitous, something that everyone knows, something that should be up all
> the time, something that has good connectivity, something that everyone
> here would not mind sending random packets for random reasons ....
Is there an Akamai hostname we can ping which would get a response from the
closest cache? Or do we have to let you know in advance that we'll be doing
this?
Adi
